An Experimental Exploration of the QCD Phase Diagram: The Search for the Critical Point and the Onset of De-confinement

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“…Somewhere on the phase boundary at µ B ≈ 400 MeV, a critical point separating the first-and second-order phase transitions is predicted [56]. The search for this point is now underway at RHIC [59], and some of the recent results will be discussed in Section 6.…”

Section: Matter Under Extreme Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The search for the (tri)critical point (CEP) in the T − µ B phase diagram-where the phase transition between the QGP and hadron matter changes from the first-to the second-order one-represents one of the most active fields of contemporary ultra-relativistic heavy-ion physics, both experimentally [59,[360][361][362] and theoretically [58,63,363,364]. In order to gain more insight into the CEP location, quite advanced techniques from condensed matter physics, such as Finite-Size Scaling (FSS) analysis of data [365] or thermal fluctuations characterized by the appropriate cumulants of the partition function [363,364,366] are being exploited.…”

Section: Search For the Critical Point Of Qcd Phase Diagrammentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The search for the CEP exploiting the potential of the RHIC accelerator complex was mounted by the STAR and PHENIX collaborations in 2010 within the Beam Energy Scan (BES) program [59]. Going down from the RHIC maximum energy √ s NN = 200 GeV, they have scanned the available phase space down to √ s NN = 7.7 GeV.…”

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“…Exploring the QCD phase boundary and critical point (CP) is one of the main goals in relativistic heavy-ion collision (RHIC) experiments [1][2][3][4][5]. In the collider, a fireball quickly forms and cools down continuously.…”

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We study the phase transition in a steady temperature-nonuniform system in the frame of the Ising model. We calculate the nonuniform-temperature effects on the phase transition point, the fluctuations, and the correlation length of the order parameter. We find the phase transition could happen at a temperature higher than the equilibrium phase transition temperature of a temperature-uniform system. Besides, the fluctuations and the correlation length are enhanced near the phase transition point, and they monotonously increase from the crossover regime to the first order phase transition regime without exotic behavior at the critical point. Our study is helpful to understand the behaviors of QCD phase transition in the relativistic heavy-ion collision and provides a method to evaluate the nonuniform-temperature effects for the order parameter.

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“…The goals of the STAR beam energy scan (BES) program include searches for a possible QCD critical point, and for the turn-off of signatures of quark-gluon plasma (QGP); study of the transition between hadronic and partonic matter is also of great interest [1]. RHIC BES phase I (BES-I) has yielded interesting results below √ s NN = 19.6 GeV in azimuthal anisotropy for identified hadrons, kaon to pion ratios, and net-proton higher moments.…”

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