Probing the QCD critical point with relativistic heavy-ion collisions

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S. Bass, H. Petersen, C. Quammen, H. Canary, C. G. Healey, R. M. Taylor
Central European Journal of Physics, vol. 10(6), 2012, pp. 1278-1281

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Bass, S., Petersen, H., Quammen, C., Canary, H., Healey, C. G., & Taylor, R. M. (2012). Probing the QCD critical point with relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Central European Journal of Physics, 10(6), 1278–1281.

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Bass, S., H. Petersen, C. Quammen, H. Canary, C. G. Healey, and R. M. Taylor. “Probing the QCD Critical Point with Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions.” Central European Journal of Physics 10, no. 6 (2012): 1278–1281.

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Bass, S., et al. “Probing the QCD Critical Point with Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions.” Central European Journal of Physics, vol. 10, no. 6, 2012, pp. 1278–81.

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@article{s2012a,
  title = {Probing the QCD critical point with relativistic heavy-ion collisions},
  year = {2012},
  issue = {6},
  journal = {Central European Journal of Physics},
  pages = {1278-1281},
  volume = {10},
  author = {Bass, S. and Petersen, H. and Quammen, C. and Canary, H. and Healey, C. G. and Taylor, R. M.}
}

Abstract

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.