scholarly journals Strangeness neutrality and QCD thermodynamics

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-jie Fu ◽  
Jan M. Pawlowski ◽  
Fabian Rennecke
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Potential ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Density Fluctuations ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Thermodynamic Quantities ◽  
Functional Renormalization Group ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Perturbative Quantum ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Quark Flavors

Since the incident nuclei in heavy-ion collisions do not carry strangeness, the global net strangeness of the detected hadrons has to vanish. We investigate the impact of strangeness neutrality on the phase structure and thermodynamics of QCD at finite baryon and strangeness chemical potential. To this end, we study the low-energy sector of QCD within a Polyakov loop enhanced quark-meson effective theory with 2+1 dynamical quark flavors. Non-perturbative quantum, thermal, and density fluctuations are taken into account with the functional renormalization group. We show that the impact of strangeness neutrality on thermodynamic quantities such as the equation of state is sizable.

scholarly journals Finite Temperature QCD Sum Rules: A Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Ayala ◽  
C. A. Dominguez ◽  
M. Loewe
Keyword(s):  
Finite Temperature ◽  
Chemical Potential ◽  
Sum Rules ◽  
Light Quark ◽  
Axial Vector ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Qcd Sum Rules ◽  
Rho Meson ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Rule Method

The method of QCD sum rules at finite temperature is reviewed, with emphasis on recent results. These include predictions for the survival of charmonium and bottonium states, at and beyond the critical temperature for deconfinement, as later confirmed by lattice QCD simulations. Also included are determinations in the light-quark vector and axial-vector channels, allowing analysing the Weinberg sum rules and predicting the dimuon spectrum in heavy-ion collisions in the region of the rho-meson. Also, in this sector, the determination of the temperature behaviour of the up-down quark mass, together with the pion decay constant, will be described. Finally, an extension of the QCD sum rule method to incorporate finite baryon chemical potential is reviewed.

scholarly journals Jet Quenching Beyond the Energy Loss Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 1560060
Author(s):  
Grigory Ovanesyan
Keyword(s):  
Energy Loss ◽  
Evolution Equations ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Jet Quenching ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Dglap Evolution ◽  
Quenching Effect ◽  
Nuclear Modification Factor ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Modification Factor

We study the jet quenching effect in heavy ion collisions, based on medium-induced splitting functions calculated from Soft Collinear Effective Theory with Glauber Gluons. Our method is formulated in the language of DGLAP evolution equations with medium-induced splitting functions. In the small-x soft gluon approximation we analytically solve the evolution equations and find an intuitive connection to the energy loss approach. For central Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC we quantify the effect of finite-x corrections for the nuclear modification factor and compare to data.

scholarly journals Impact Parameter Dependence ofπ-/π+Ratio in Probing the Nuclear Symmetry Energy Using Heavy-Ion Collisions

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gao-Feng Wei ◽  
Guo-Qiang He ◽  
Xin-Wei Cao ◽  
Yi-Xin Lu
Keyword(s):  
Impact Parameter ◽  
Symmetry Energy ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Transport Model ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Parameter Dependence ◽  
Central Collisions ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Peripheral Collisions ◽  
The Impact

The impact parameter dependence ofπ-/π+ratio is examined in heavy-ion collisions at 400 MeV/nucleon within a transport model. It is shown that the sensitivity ofπ-/π+ratio on symmetry energy shows a transition from central to peripheral collisions; that is, the stiffer symmetry energy leads to a largerπ-/π+ratio in peripheral collisions while the softer symmetry energy always leads this ratio to be larger in central collisions. After checking the kinematic energy distribution ofπ-/π+ratio, we found this transition of sensitivity ofπ-/π+ratio to symmetry energy is mainly from less energetic pions; that is, the softer symmetry energy gets the less energetic pions to form a smallerπ-/π+ratio in peripheral collisions while these pions generate a largerπ-/π+ratio in central collisions. Undoubtedly, the softer symmetry energy can also lead more energetic pions to form a largerπ-/π+ratio in peripheral collisions. Nevertheless, considering that most of pions are insufficiently energetic at this beam energy, we therefore suggest theπ-/π+ratio as a probe of the high-density symmetry energy effective only in central at most to midcentral collisions, thereby avoiding the possible information of low-density symmetry energy carried inπ-/π+ratio from peripheral collisions.

scholarly journals Model comparison for initial density fluctuations in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Floerchinger ◽  
Eduardo Grossi ◽  
Kianusch Vahid Yousefnia
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Model Comparison ◽  
Initial Density ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Density Fluctuations ◽  
Ion Collisions

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF KAON POLARIZATION IN NUCLEAR MATTER ON THE K− PRODUCTION IN HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS

1996 ◽  
Vol 05 (02) ◽  
pp. 313-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.E. KOLOMEITSEV ◽  
D.N. VOSKRESENSKY ◽  
B. KÄMPFER
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Matter ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Heavy Ion Collisions ◽  
Particle Production ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Strange Particle ◽  
Intermediate Energy ◽  
Medium Effects ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
The Impact

The impact of the kaon polarization in nuclear matter on the K− yield in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions is investigated. Our scenario of the strange particle production and dynamics is based on an expanding fireball model. This allows for a proper account of in-medium effects. A relation between observed K+ and K− yields is derived. Differential K− cross-sections are calculated and compared with available experimental data taken at various collision energies. It turns out that in-medium effects can modify the K− yields by factors 2 to 5 at beam energies between 2 and 1 AGeV.

scholarly journals ON THE CHIRAL PERTURBATION THEORY FOR TWO-FLAVOR TWO-COLOR QCD AT FINITE CHEMICAL POTENTIAL

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (07) ◽  
pp. 559-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOMÁŠ BRAUNER
Keyword(s):  
Perturbation Theory ◽  
Chiral Perturbation Theory ◽  
Chemical Potential ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Einstein Condensation ◽  
Chiral Perturbation ◽  
Physical Content ◽  
Chemical Potentials ◽  
Bose Einstein ◽  
Quark Flavors

We construct the chiral perturbation theory for two-color QCD with two quark flavors as an effective theory on the SO(6)/SO(5) coset space. This formulation turns out to be particularly useful for extracting the physical content of the theory when finite baryon and isospin chemical potentials are introduced, and Bose–Einstein condensation sets on.

scholarly journals Finite-volume effects on phase transition in the Polyakov-loop extended Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model with a chiral chemical potential

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (13) ◽  
pp. 1750067 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zan Pan ◽  
Zhu-Fang Cui ◽  
Chao-Hsi Chang ◽  
Hong-Shi Zong
Keyword(s):  
Finite Volume ◽  
Chemical Potential ◽  
System Size ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Polyakov Loop ◽  
End Point ◽  
Chemical Potentials ◽  
Ion Collision ◽  
Quark Flavors ◽  
Volume Effects

To investigate the finite-volume effects on the chiral symmetry restoration and the deconfinement transition for a quantum chromodynamics (QCD) system with [Formula: see text] (two quark flavors), we apply the Polyakov-loop extended Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model by introducing a chiral chemical potential [Formula: see text] artificially. The final numerical results indicate that the introduced chiral chemical potential does not change the critical exponents, but shifts the location of critical end point (CEP) significantly; the ratios for the chiral chemical potentials and temperatures at CEP, [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], are significantly affected by the system size [Formula: see text]. The behavior is that [Formula: see text] increases slowly with [Formula: see text] when [Formula: see text] is “large” and [Formula: see text] decreases first and then increases with [Formula: see text] when [Formula: see text] is “small.” It is also found that for a fixed [Formula: see text], there is a [Formula: see text], where the critical end point vanishes and the whole phase diagram becomes a crossover when [Formula: see text]. Therefore, we suggest that for the heavy-ion collision experiments, which is to study the possible location of CEP, the finite-volume behavior should be taken into account.

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