Strangeness-neutral equation of state for QCD with a critical point

JM Karthein, D Mroczek, AR Nava Acuna… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
The European Physical Journal Plus, 2021Springer
We present a strangeness-neutral equation of state for QCD that exhibits critical behavior
and matches lattice QCD results for the Taylor-expanded thermodynamic variables up to
fourth order in\(\mu _B/T\). It is compatible with the SMASH hadronic transport approach and
has a range of temperatures and baryonic chemical potentials relevant for phase II of the
Beam Energy Scan at RHIC. We provide an updated version of the software BES-EoS,
which produces an equation of state for QCD that includes a critical point in the 3D Ising …
Abstract
We present a strangeness-neutral equation of state for QCD that exhibits critical behavior and matches lattice QCD results for the Taylor-expanded thermodynamic variables up to fourth order in. It is compatible with the SMASH hadronic transport approach and has a range of temperatures and baryonic chemical potentials relevant for phase II of the Beam Energy Scan at RHIC. We provide an updated version of the software BES-EoS, which produces an equation of state for QCD that includes a critical point in the 3D Ising model universality class. This new version also includes isentropic trajectories and the critical contribution to the correlation length. Since heavy-ion collisions have zero global net-strangeness density and a fixed ratio of electric charge to baryon number, the BES-EoS is more suitable to describe this system. Comparison with the previous version of the EoS is thoroughly discussed.
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