QCD phase diagram and charge fluctuations
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We discuss the phase structure and fluctuations of conserved charges in two flavor QCD. The importance of the density fluctuations to probe the existence of the critical end point is summarized. The role of these fluctuations to identify the first order phase transition in the presence of spinodal phase separation is also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0702296,
title = {QCD phase diagram and charge fluctuations},
author = {K. Redlich and B. Friman and C. Sasaki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0702296},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
8 pages, 8 figures, plenary talk given at the 19th International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions: Quark Matter 2006 (QM 2006), Shanghai, China, 14-20 Nov 2006