14–17 Nov 2012
Grand Hotel, Pusan, South Korea
Asia/Seoul timezone

QCD critical point, conserved and nonconserved charge fluctuations, and final state interactions

16 Nov 2012, 10:50
30m
Sky Hall (22nd) (Grand Hotel)

Sky Hall (22nd)

Grand Hotel

Speaker

Masayuki Asakawa (Osaka University)

Description

We examine some of proposed experimental signals for the QCD critical point and QCD phase transition. We then argue that final interaction effects are very important in relating physical quantities around the critical point or in the quark-gluon plasma to experimental observables. Finally, we show that it is possible to reconstruct baryon number cumulants at chemical freezeout from observed proton number cumulants.
Keywords QCD critical point, phase transition, conserved charge fluctuation, final state interaction

Primary author

Masayuki Asakawa (Osaka University)

Co-author

Dr Masakiyo Kitazawa (Osaka University)

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