Friday, February 3, 2012

1202.0076 (Steffen A. Bass et al.)

Probing the QCD Critical Point with Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions    [PDF]

Steffen A. Bass, Hannah Petersen, Cory Quammen, Hal Canary, Christopher G. Healey, Russell M. Taylor II
We utilize an event-by-event relativistic hydrodynamic calculation performed
at a number of different incident beam energies to investigate the creation of
hot and dense QCD matter near the critical point. Using state-of-the-art
analysis and visualization tools we demonstrate that each collision event
probes QCD matter characterized by a wide range of temperatures and
baryo-chemical potentials, making a dynamical response of the system to the
vicinity of the critical point very difficult to isolate above the background.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0076

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