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Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement 2016

Europe/Warsaw
Oratorium Marianum (University of Wrocław)

Oratorium Marianum

University of Wrocław

plac Uniwersytecki 1
Description

The 2016 edition of CPOD will be held at the University of Wrocław. The purpose of this conference series is to discuss theoretical and experimental progress in studies of the QCD phase diagram and properties of strongly interacting matter at high density. Particular emphasis is put on the physics at non-zero baryon number density. The most recent meetings have taken place in DubnaWuhanNapa and Bielefeld.

Topics:

  • Critical Point
  • Phase transitions in hot and dense matter
  • Deconfinement and chiral symmetry restoration
  • Hadronization and chemical freeze-out
  • Compact stars
  • Present and future facilities, detectors and methods
Participants
  • Akira Ohnishi
  • Aleksandr Dubinin
  • Alexander Ayriyan
  • Alexander Sorin
  • Alexandra Friesen
  • Alexeii Kurepin
  • Aliaksei Kachanovich
  • Anar Rustamov
  • Andrey Seryakov
  • Andrzej Rybicki
  • Anton Motornenko
  • Arkadiy Taranenko
  • Atsuro Ikeda
  • Atsushi Nakamura
  • Bengt Friman
  • Bernd-Jochen Schaefer
  • Burkhard Kampfer
  • Chihiro Sasaki
  • Christoph Blume
  • Christoph Herold
  • Claudio Bonati
  • Dariusz Prorok
  • David Blaschke
  • David Miller
  • Dániel Kincses
  • Edward Shuryak
  • Elena Bratkovskaya
  • Evgeny Andronov
  • Florian Seck
  • Frithjof Karsch
  • Gergely Gabor Barnafoldi
  • Gordon Baym
  • Grzegorz Stefanek
  • György Wolf
  • Haojie Xu
  • Helmut Oeschler
  • Helmut Satz
  • Hendrik van Hees
  • Hideo Suganuma
  • Hovik Grigorian
  • Huichao Song
  • Igor Iosilevskiy
  • Ilya Selyuzhenkov
  • Iurii Karpenko
  • Jacek Rozynek
  • Jan M. Pawlowski
  • Jean Cleymans
  • Joachim Stroth
  • Joerg Aichelin
  • Johann Rafelski
  • Johanna Stachel
  • Jørgen Randrup
  • Kaddour Chelabi
  • Karthy AR
  • Katarzyna Grebieszkow
  • Kenji Fukushima
  • Kenji Morita
  • Krzysztof Redlich
  • Larry McLerran
  • Leonid Glozman
  • Ludwik Turko
  • Maciej Piotr Lewicki
  • Maja Katarzyna Mackowiak-Pawlowska
  • Manuel Lorenz
  • Marcus Bluhm
  • Marek Gazdzicki
  • Margaret Carrington
  • Mario Mitter
  • Mark Gorenstein
  • Mark Kaltenborn
  • Marlene Nahrgang
  • Martin Kohn
  • Masakiyo Kitazawa
  • Mateusz Cierniak
  • Michael Buballa
  • Michal Naskret
  • Michal Praszalowicz
  • Michał Marczenko
  • Michał Szymański
  • Milad Tanha
  • Narine Gevorgyan
  • Niels-Uwe Bastian
  • Nikolaos Davis
  • Nu Xu
  • Oleksii Ivanytskyi
  • Pasi Huovinen
  • Peter Braun-Munzinger
  • Peter Senger
  • Peter Seyboth
  • Philipp Kähler
  • Piotr Bozek
  • Pok Man Lo
  • Poonam Jain
  • Rajiv V Gavai
  • Roy Alphanso Lacey
  • Ryo Yoshiike
  • Shi Pu
  • Simon Liebing
  • Stanislaw Mrowczynski
  • Steffen A. Bass
  • Stephan Endres
  • Swagato Mukherjee
  • Szymon Harabasz
  • Taekwang Kim
  • Takahiro Doi
  • Takeru Yokota
  • Tariq Mahmoud
  • Tetyana Galatyuk
  • Thomas Klahn
  • Tobias Fischer
  • Tomasz Matulewicz
  • Toru Kojo
  • Viktor Begun
  • Viktor Klochkov
  • Vinzent Steinberg
  • Vitalii Blinov
  • Vladimir Filinov
  • Volker Friese
  • Volker Koch
  • Volodymyr Vovchenko
  • Wojciech Broniowski
  • Wojciech Florkowski
  • Zhangbu Xu
    • 8:00 AM 8:45 AM
      Registration Oratorium Marianum

      Oratorium Marianum

      University of Wrocław

      plac Uniwersytecki 1
    • 8:45 AM 9:00 AM
      Opening Oratorium Marianum

      Oratorium Marianum

      University of Wrocław

      plac Uniwersytecki 1
    • 9:00 AM 1:00 PM
      Plenary session Oratorium Marianum

      Oratorium Marianum

      University of Wrocław

      Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1
      • 9:00 AM
        Status of Lattice QCD Simulations 30m
        Speaker: Frithjof Karsch (Bielefeld University)
      • 9:30 AM
        Limits on the experimental search for the CEP 30m
        Speaker: Nu Xu (LBNL)
      • 10:00 AM
        From Glasma to QCD phase boundary 30m
        Speaker: Larry McLerran (BNL)
      • 10:30 AM
        Coffee break 30m
      • 11:00 AM
        News from strong interactions program of the NA61/SHINE experiment 30m

        The results from the analysis of fluctuations and correlations can help to discover the
        critical point of strongly interacting matter. In the NA61/SHINE experiment the strategy
        of locating the critical point relies on performing a two dimensional phase diagram
        (T-mu_B) scan by measurements of fluctuations and correlations in proton-proton,
        proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus interactions as a function of collision energy and
        system size. Close to the critical point increase of fluctuations is predicted.

        In this contribution the latest NA61/SHINE results on fluctuations and correlations from
        the p+p, Be+Be, and Ar+Sc energy scans will be presented. The NA61 experimental results
        will be compared with existing NA49 data and with model predictions.

        Speaker: Katarzyna Grebieszkow (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))
      • 11:30 AM
        Future facilities for HIC 30m
        Speaker: Volker Friese (GSI Darmstadt)
      • 12:00 PM
        Systematic Extraction of QGP Properties 30m

        One of the motivations for the RHIC beam energy scan program was its capability of providing data for the determination of the temperature- and baryon-density dependence of QGP transport coefficients, such as the specific shear viscosity. This task is complicated by the rich set phenomena that computational models commonly used for the determination of the transport coefficients need to address, ranging from pre-equilibrium evolution to fluctuations around the QCD critical point.

        In my talk I will demonstrate an new method for determining the physics parameters that drive the dynamics of computational models, utilizing Bayesian statistics and a multi-parameter model to data comparison. We shall use a state-of-the-art hybrid model for calculating the time-evolution of a heavy-ion collision, including that of the QGP phase and its subsequent decay into the hadronic final state. RHIC-BES data will be utilized to extract first hints for a possible baryo-chemical potential dependence of the QGP specific shear viscosity.

        Speaker: Steffen Bass (Duke University)
      • 12:30 PM
        Fluctuations of charges at the phase boundary 30m

        In this talk, I will first summarize the critical behavior of fluctuations of conserved charges expected in the vicinity of the chiral phase boundary. Then, I will show how the finite quark mass or finite volume modifies the divergent cumulants in QCD-like model calculations.Particular emphasis will be put on the importance of the regular contribution to the fluctuations when the singular part contribution is smeared. I will show that the electric charge fluctuations can have non-trivial effects by imposing momentum cuts even in the absence of the criticality.

        Speaker: Kenji Morita (Kyoto University)
    • 1:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch break
    • 2:00 PM 6:00 PM
      Parallel session 1 336 lecture Hall

      336 lecture Hall

      University of Wrocław

      Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1
      • 2:00 PM
        Existence of the critical endpoint in the vector meson extended linear sigma model 30m

        In the framework of an SU(3) (axial)vector meson extended linear sigma model with additional constituent quarks and Polyakov loops, we investigate the effects of (axial)vector mesons on the chiral phase transition. The parameters of the Lagrangian are set at zero temperature and we use a hybrid approach where in the effective potential the constituent quarks are treated at one-loop level and all the mesons at tree-level. We have four order parameters, two scalar condensates and two Polyakov loop variables and their temperature and baryochemical potential dependence are determined from the corresponding field equations. We investigate the thermodynamics of the system, and at zero temperature we compare our results with lattice calculations. We study, furthermore, the changes of the tree-level scalar meson masses in the hot and dense medium.

        Speaker: Gyorgy Wolf (Wigner FK)
      • 2:30 PM
        Cumulative production of pions by heavy baryonic resonances in proton-nucleus collisions 30m

        Pion production in the backward direction in the target rest frame is considered

        in proton-nucleus (p+A) collisions. Pions outside the kinematical boundary of

        proton-nucleon (p+N) collisions, the so called cumulative effect, is studied.

        Basic restrictions on the energy of pions emitted in the backward direction in

        p+N and p+A reactions are considered. These are restrictions that follow from

        energy-momentum conservation. It is argued that resonances with very high

        masses are the only source of the cumulative pions. The resonances are first

        created in p+N reactions. Due to successive collisions with nuclear nucleons,

        the masses of these resonances may increase and simultaneously their

        longitudinal velocities decrease. It is suggested that these two effects give an

        explanation of the cumulative pion production. The heavy hadron-like systems with very

        high masses (heavy resonances, Hagedorn fireballs, quark-gluon bags, baryon

        and meson strings) are of primary importance for properties of strongly

        interacting matter at high temperatures and/or baryonic density. They may have

        also decisive influence on the transition between hadron matter and quark-gluon

        plasma, and define the type of this phase transition and existence of the QCD

        critical point itself. We also use the Ultra relativistic Quantum Molecular

        Dynamics model to describe the existing data and analyze some microscopic

        aspects of cumulative pion production in p+A reactions.

        Speaker: Anton Motornenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
      • 3:00 PM
        Repulsive interactions and their effects on the thermodynamics 30m

        In this talk we compare two approaches in modeling repulsive interactions among hadrons: the excluded-volume approximation and the S-matrix formalism. The latter provides a consistent treatment of broad resonances based on empirical scattering phase shifts. We shall apply these techniques to study the thermodynamics of the (πN∆) system, with a particular focus on the fluctuation of Baryon charge in the thermal medium.

        Speaker: Pok Man Lo (GSI)
      • 3:30 PM
        Coffee break 30m
      • 4:00 PM
        Charm diffusion coefficent from nonzero momentum Euclidean correlator in temporal channel 30m

        We study a charm quark diffusion coefficient with nonzero momentum
        correlator on the quenched lattice. Starting from rather general requirements on the spectral function, we derive inequalities to constrain the value of the diffusion coefficient. These inequalities have quantities which can be measured on the lattice
        from temporal correlator with nonzero momentum. Using the inequalities and the numerical simulation on the lattice, we constrain the value of the diffusion coefficient
        for 1.5<T/T_c<4.5.

        Speaker: Atsuro Ikeda (Osaka University)
      • 4:30 PM
        Critical fluctuations in models with van der Waals interactions 30m

        Particle number fluctuations are considered within the full van der Waals (VDW) equation,
        which contains both attractive (mean-field) and repulsive (eigenvolume) interactions.
        Two steps to extend the VDW equation and make it appropriate for new physical applications are carried out:
        (i) the grand canonical ensemble (GCE) formulation which allows to calculate the particle number fluctuations,
        and (ii) the inclusion of the quantum statistics which allows to describe the nuclear matter as a system of interacting nucleons.
        The VDW equation is used to calculate the scaled variance, skewness, and kurtosis of nucleon number fluctuations
        in nuclear matter, and these quantities show singular behavior with rich structures around the critical point.
        The strongly intensive measures Delta and Sigma of the particle number and excitation energy fluctuations are also considered,
        and, similarly, show singular behavior near the CP. The Delta measure is shown to be more sensitive to the
        proximity of the critical point than the Sigma measure. Based on universality argument, similar behavior is expected to occur in the vicinity of the QCD critical point.
        Additionally, the role of repulsive (eigenvolume) VDW interactions in the hadron resonance gas model is considered.
        It is shown that the extraction of the chemical freeze-out parameters is very sensitive to
        the choice of eigenvolumes for different hadrons. Comparison to the lattice QCD is also explored.

        Speaker: Volodymyr Vovchenko
      • 5:00 PM
        Novel picture of the soft modes at the QCD critical point based on the FRG method 30m

        One of remarkable features in the expected structure of the QCD phase diagram is the existence of QCD critical point (CP), which is the end point of the phase boundary of the first-order between the hadronic phase and the QGP phase. At the CP, the phase transition becomes second order, and thus there should be gapless and long-life modes called the soft modes, which govern the low-energy dynamics. Thus revealing the precise nature of the soft modes has a decisive importance for understanding the dynamical properties of the system around the CP.
        In this talk, we shall report on an intensive investigation [1] of the soft mode at the QCD CP on the basis of the functional renormalization group (FRG) method in the local potential approximation. We calculate the spectral function as a function of the energy and momentum in the scalar and pseudo-scalar channels in the quark-meson model on the basis of the recent development[2]. At finite baryon chemical potential with a finite quark mass, the baryon-number fluctuation is coupled to the scalar channel and the spectral function in the sigma channel has a support not only in the time-like and but also in the space-like regions, which correspond to the mesonic and the particle-hole phonon excitations, respectively. We find that the energy of the peak position of the latter becomes vanishingly small with the height being enhanced as the system approaches the QCD CP, which is a manifestation of the fact that the phonon mode is the soft mode associated with the second-order transition at the CP, as was suggested by some authors[3,4]. We also extract the dispersion curves of the mesonic and the phonon modes, which leads to a novel and striking finding that the dispersion curve of the would-be sigma mesonic mode crosses the light-cone into the space-like region, and then eventually merge into the phonon mode as the system approaches further close to the CP. This suggests that the sigma-mesonic mode also becomes soft at the CP, in contrast to the pionic mode. We also discuss implications of the results on the type of possible inhomogeneous phases at higher densities and experiments, and theoretical elaboration to incorporate higher-derivative effects.

        [1] T. Yokota, T. Kunihiro and K. Morita, arXiv:1603.02147.
        [2] R. A. Tripolt, L. von Smekal and J. Wambach, Phys. Rev. D 90, no. 7, 074031 (2014).
        [3] H. Fujii and M. Ohtani, Phys. Rev. D 70, 014016 (2004).
        [4] D. T. Son and M. A. Stephanov, Phys. Rev. D 70, 056001 (2004).

        Speaker: Takeru Yokota (Kyoto University, Japan)
      • 5:30 PM
        Chiral symmetry breaking in continuum QCD 30m

        Model parameter free investigations of Yang-Mills theory and quenched QCD in the vacuum are presented as a necessary prerequisitve for corresponding investigations of the QCD phase structure with the functional renormalisation group equation. Preliminary results for Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature are discussed. Finally, a phenomenological application of the vacuum results to the etaprime-meson mass at the chiral crossover is presented.

        Speaker: Mario Mitter (Univ. Heidelberg)
    • 2:00 PM 6:00 PM
      Parallel session 2 Oratorium Marianum

      Oratorium Marianum

      University of Wrocław

      Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1
      • 2:00 PM
        Surprises for the chemical freeze-out line from the new data in proton-proton and nucleus-nucleus collisions 30m Oratorium Marianum

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

        New results of the NA61/SHINE and HADES collaborations, as well as the updated data from NA49, and the existing data from other collaborations are analyzed within the transport models and the hadron resonance gas (HRG) statistical model. The chemical freeze-out parameters in $p+p$ interactions and central $A+A$ collisions are found and compared with each other in the $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 3.2−17.3 GeV energy range.

        The chemical freeze-out temperatures in $p+p$ interactions are found to be larger than the corresponding temperatures in central $A+A$ collisions. The temperature in $p+p$ slowly grows with energy from $130$ to $175$ MeV, in contrast to $A+A$ temperature, which increases very fast from zero and saturates at $T_{\rm A+A}\simeq156$ MeV. This value is lower than predicted by chemical freeze-out line in HRG previously, but is very close to the temperature found in HRG in $A+A$ at the LHC.

        The largest difference $T_{\rm p+p}-T_{\rm A+A}\simeq60$ MeV is at low energies. These temperatures are very close $T_{\rm p+p}\simeq T_{\rm A+A}$ at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=6.3-7.7$ GeV, and then the difference grows again reaching $20$ MeV at the highest SPS energy. The radius $R_{\rm A+A}$ increases with collision energy, while $R_{\rm p+p}$ is approximately constant. More data at low energies are needed. The minimal requirements to the set of measured particles are obtained, see arXiv:1512.08025 for details.

        Speaker: Viktor Begun (Jan Kochanowski University)
      • 2:30 PM
        Inverse Magnetic Catalysis in Nambu--Jona-Lasinio Model beyond Mean Field 30m Oratorium Marianum

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

        We study inverse magnetic catalysis in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model beyond mean field approximation. The feed-down from mesons to quarks is embedded in an effective coupling constant at finite temperature and magnetic field. While the magnetic catalysis is still the dominant effect at low temperature, the meson dressed quark mass drops down with increasing magnetic field at high temperature due to the dimension reduction of the Goldstone mode in the Pauli-Villars regularization scheme.

        Speaker: Shijun Mao (Xian Jiaotong University)
      • 3:00 PM
        Chiral magnetic effect and chiral kinetic theory 30m Oratorium Marianum

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

        A power expansion scheme is set up to determine the Wigner function that satisfies the quantum kinetic equation for spin-1/2 charged fermions in a background electromagnetic field. Vector and axial-vector current induced by magnetic field and vorticity are obtained simultaneously from the Wigner function. The chiral magnetic and vortical effect and chiral anomaly are shown as natural consequences of the quantum kinetic equation. The axial-vector current induced by vorticity is argued to lead to a local polarization effect along the vorticity direction in heavy-ion collisions.

        Speaker: Shi Pu (USTC, China)
      • 3:30 PM
        Coffee break 30m Oratorium Marianum (University of Wrocław)

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1
      • 4:00 PM
        Centrality determination and multiplicity fluctuations in Ar+Sc collisions at CERN SPS from NA61/SHINE 30m Oratorium Marianum

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

        The preliminary centrality determination procedure and charge hadron multiplicity fluctuations are investigated in the new Ar+Sc data at 13A, 19A, 30A, 40A, 75A, 150A GeV/c with NA61/SHINE at the SPS. The centrality analysis is based on nucleon-spectator energy in the forward hemisphere from the Projectile spectator detector. The scaled variance for all, negatively and positively charged hadrons is presented for different centrality classes. Results are discussed and compared with p+p and Be+Be NA61/SHINE data and the EPOS 1.99 simulations.

        Speaker: Andrey Seryakov (St. Petersburg State University (RU))
      • 4:30 PM
        Transverse momentum and multiplicity fluctuations in Ar+Sc collisions at CERN SPS from NA61/SHINE 30m Oratorium Marianum

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

        The NA61/SHINE experiment aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. For these goals a scan of the two dimensional phase diagram (T-$\mu_{B}$) is being performed at the SPS by measurements of hadron production in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus interactions as a function of collision energy and system size.

        In this contribution preliminary results on transverse momentum and multiplicity fluctuations expressed in terms of strongly intensive quantities from the Ar+Sc energy scan will be presented. These fluctuations are supposed to be sensitive to the critical point existence. The NA61/SHINE results are compared with p+p and Be+Be energy scan as well as NA49 measurements and model predictions.

        Speaker: Evgeny Andronov (St. Petersburg State University (RU))
      • 5:00 PM
        Pion spectra in Ar+Sc interactions at SPS energies 30m Oratorium Marianum

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

        The aim of the NA61/SHINE ion programme is to explore the QCD phase diagram within the range of thermodynamical variables accessible by the SPS. In addition the experiment provides precision hadron production measurements for description of the neutrino beam of the T2K experiment at J-PARC and for simulation of cosmic-ray showers for the Pierre Auger Observatory and KASCADE experiments. The main physics goals of the NA61/SHINE ion programme are the study of the properties of the onset of deconfinement and the search for signatures of the critical point of strongly interacting matter. These goals are pursued by performing an energy (beam momentum 13A-158A GeV/c) and system size (p+p, p+Pb, Be+Be, Ar+Ca, Xe+La, Pb+Pb) scan. In this talk I will discuss recent analysis results of Ar+Sc interactions at six beam momenta: 13A, 19A, 30A, 40A, 75A, 150A GeV/c. I will present the rapidity and transverse mass spectra of pions obtained with the "h-" analysis method. The newly obtained data will be compared with different collision systems, namely: p+p, Be+Be and Pb+Pb.

        Speaker: Maciej Lewicki (University of Wroclaw)
      • 5:30 PM
        Mean pion multiplicities in Ar+Sc collisions 30m Oratorium Marianum

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

        The investigation of preliminary results for mean negatively charged pion multiplicities $\langle \pi^- \rangle$ from Ar+Sc collisions is the main topic of the talk.
        The data has been taken recently by the NA61/SHINE collaboration for a wide range of momenta - 13, 19, 30, 40, 75 and 150 A GeV/c. Starting with rapidity distibution of differential spectra
        $\frac{dn}{dy}$ extrapolated to unmeasured regions, the procedure of obtaining the final multiplicities is presented. The mean number of wounded nucleons
        $\langle W\rangle$ extracted from Glissando MC model is used to obtain the $\langle \pi^- \rangle/\langle W\rangle$ ratio. Using data from other experiments,
        the comparison of $\langle \pi^- \rangle/\langle W\rangle$ for different collisions and momenta is discussed.

        Speaker: Michał Naskręt (University of Wroclaw (PL))
    • 6:00 PM 8:00 PM
      Poster session Oratorium Marianum

      Oratorium Marianum

      University of Wrocław

      Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

      Wine-cheese style poster session

    • 9:00 AM 1:00 PM
      Plenary session Oratorium Marianum

      Oratorium Marianum

      University of Wrocław

      Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1
      • 9:00 AM
        Horizons, causality and information transfer 30m
        Speaker: Helmut Satz (Univ. Bielefeld)
      • 9:30 AM
        Chiral criticality: confronting models with data 30m
        Speaker: Bengt Friman (GSI)
      • 10:00 AM
        Fluctuations in a finite volume 30m
        Speaker: Bernd-Jochen Schaefer
      • 10:30 AM
        Coffee break 30m
      • 11:00 AM
        Observation of the Critical Point in the Phase Diagram for Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter 30m
        Speaker: Roy Lacey (State University of New York (US))
      • 11:30 AM
        Anisotropic hydrodynamics 30m

        Recent developments in anisotropic hydrodynamics will be reviewed.

        Speaker: Wojciech Florkowski (Institute of nuclear Physics, Krakow)
      • 12:00 PM
        Directed flow in heavy-ion collisions and softening of equation of state 30m

        We analyze the directed flow ($v_1$) of protons and pions
        in high-energy heavy-ion collisions in the incident energy range
        from $\sqrt{s_{{\scriptscriptstyle NN}}}=7.7$ GeV to 27 GeV
        within a microscopic transport model [1].
        Standard hadronic transport approaches do not explain the collapse of directed flow below
        $\sqrt{s_{{\scriptscriptstyle NN}}}\simeq 20$ GeV.
        By contrast, when we take acount of a softening of the equation of state
        via the attractive orbit scattering [2],
        we can well describe the behavior of directed flow data recently obtained by the STAR collaboration [3].
        We argue that the observed collapse of directed flow at midrapidity at $9\,\text{GeV} \leq \sqrt{s_{{\scriptscriptstyle NN}}}\leq 20$ GeV
        is the evidence for the softening of the QCD equation of state.
        We also discuss the possible density region where the softening takes place.

        [1] Y. Nara, A. Ohnishi, H. St\"ocker, arXiv:1601.07692 [hep-ph].
        [2] H. Sorge, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82 (1999), 2048;
        P. Danielewicz and S. Pratt, Phys. Rev. C 53 (1996), 249.
        [3] L. Adamczyk et al. [STAR Collaboration], Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (2014), 162301.

        Speaker: Akira Ohnishi (Kyoto University)
      • 12:30 PM
        Vorticity in the QGP liquid and Lambda polarization at the RHIC BES energies 30m

        We study the formation of collective flow vorticity in non-central heavy ion collisions at RHIC Beam Energy Scan collision energy range, $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=7.7\dots 200$ GeV with state-of-the-art viscous hydro model, vHLLE+UrQMD. With the model adjusted to approach the experimental data for rapidity, transverse momentum distributions and elliptic flow of produced hadrons, we explore the collision energy and centrality dependence of the thermal vorticity and the resulting polarization of produced Lambda baryons. We show the dependence of polarization on transverse momentum and rapidity.

        Speaker: Iurii Karpenko (INFN Firenze)
    • 1:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch break
    • 2:00 PM 6:00 PM
      COST Action MP1304 "NewCompStar" WG2 Meeting Oratorium Marianum

      Oratorium Marianum

      University of Wrocław

      Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1
      • 2:00 PM
        Recent Results on Equation of States from NewCompStar 30m

        A biref summary on the recent result on compact star equation of state will be presented. I summarize the directions and activities of the NewCompStar working group on the physics of the strong interaction in cold dense nuclear and QCD medium exists in compact stars.

        Speaker: Gergely Barnafoldi (Wigner RCP Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
      • 2:30 PM
        Quark matter in neutron stars 30m

        This talk will describe the continuing development of a consistent
        picture of the liquid interiors of neutron stars, driven by three
        recent advances: observations of heavy neutron stars with masses ~2.0
        solar masses; determinations of masses and radii simultaneously for an
        increasing number of neutron stars; and an emerging understanding in
        QCD of how nuclear matter can turn into deconfined quark matter in the
        interior.

        Speaker: Gordon Baym (University of Illinois)
      • 3:00 PM
        QCD in stars 30m

        We delineate properties of cold, dense QCD matter through equations of state supposed from observational constraints on neutron stars.

        Speaker: Toru Kojo (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
      • 3:30 PM
        Coffee break 30m
      • 4:00 PM
        Inhomogeneous chiral condensates in the QCD phase diagram 30m
        Speaker: Michael Buballa (T)
      • 4:30 PM
        Consequences of simultaneous chiral symmetry restoration and deconfinement for the QCD phase diagram 30m
        Speaker: Thomas Klaehn (University of Wroclaw)
      • 5:00 PM
        Bayesian analysis of new class of realistic hybrid EoS models based on M-R data 30m

        We performed a Bayesian analysis of a new class realistic models of two-phase equations of state (EoS) for hybrid stars and demonstrated that the observation of such a pair of high-mass twin stars would have a sufficient discriminating power to favor hybrid EoS with a strong first order phase transition over alternative EoS.
        The new class of two-phase EoS is characterized by three main features:
        (1) stiffening of the nuclear EoS at supersaturation densities due to quark exchange effects (Pauli blocking) between hadrons, modelled by an excluded volume correction,
        (2) stiffening of the quark matter EoS at high densities due to multiquark interactions and
        (3) possibility for a strong first order phase transition with an early onset and large density jump.
        The third feature results from a Maxwell construction for the possible transition from the nuclear to a quark matter phase and its properties depend on the two parameters used for (1) and (2), respectively. Varying these two parameters one obtains a class of hybrid EoS that yields solutions of the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equations for sequences of hadronic and hybrid stars in the mass-radius diagram which cover the full range of patterns according to the Alford-Han-Prakash classification following which a hybrid star branch can be either absent, connected or disconnected with the hadronic one. The latter case often includes a tiny connected branch. The disconnected hybrid star branch, also called "third family", corresponds to high-mass twin stars characterized by the same gravitational mass but different radii.

        Speaker: Alexander Ayriyan (JINR)
      • 5:30 PM
        Cooling of neutron stars with stiff stellar matter 30m
        Speaker: Hovik Grigorian (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
    • 9:00 AM 1:00 PM
      Plenary session Oratorium Marianum

      Oratorium Marianum

      University of Wrocław

      Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1
      • 9:00 AM
        Particle production at QCD phase boundary 30m
        Speaker: Peter Braun-Munzinger (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))
      • 9:30 AM
        Production of light flavor hadrons in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE 30m
        Speaker: Helmut Oeschler (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (DE))
      • 10:00 AM
        Chiral symmetry restoration versus deconfinement in heavy-ion collisions at high baryon density 30m
        Speaker: Elena Bratkovskaya (FIAS)
      • 10:30 AM
        Coffee break 30m
      • 11:00 AM
        Photon emission in the vicinity of a critical point 30m

        We address holographically (i) an emulation of deconfinement upon temperature increase as
        sequential or instanteneous melting (disappearence) of normalizable eigenmodes of hadron states with a Regge type spectrum in vacuum, and (ii) the phase diagram within the updated DeWolfe-Gubser-Rosen model. Photon emission rates are calculated and found to map out the pecularities (CEP and first-order phase transition) of the phase diagram emerging from a quark-meson model with linearized fluctuations.

        Speaker: Burkhard Kampfer (HZDR & TU Dresden)
      • 11:30 AM
        The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) Experiment at FAIR 30m

        The CBM Experiment is one of the main four scientific pillars of the
        new Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR). Its main
        objective is the study of the QCD phase diagram in the region of high
        baryon-densities. With nucleus-nucleus collisions at the SIS100
        accelerator at beam energies up to 14 A GeV strongly interacting
        matter with densities about 10 times as high as normal nuclear matter
        can be produced. The experimental setup is designed to cope with
        highest interaction rates (up to 10 MHz), which for the first time
        will also allow to measure rare probes (open charm, light and heavy
        vector mesons) in the FAIR energy regime. We will report on the
        current status of the CBM experiment. Many detector subsystems have
        already completed their technical design reports, or will finalize
        them in 2016. The main achievements and challenges of these
        developments will be discussed. Also, a lot of effort is being spend
        on evaluating the physics performance of the experiment. An overview
        on the main results in the context of the CBM physics program will be
        given.

        Speaker: Christoph Blume (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))
      • 12:00 PM
        STAR BES-I highlights and RHIC BES-II program 30m
        Speaker: Zhangbu Xu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 12:30 PM
        Hadron production at SIS energies: an update from HADES 30m

        Data on particle production in heavy ion collisions in the energy regime of 1-2 A GeV have been collected over almost three decades now. As most of the newly created hadrons are produced below or slightly above their free NN-thresholds, data are usually interpreted with the help of phenomenological models, rather than comparing to elementary reference measurements. Driven by advance in detector technology, more and more rare and penetrating probes have become accessible, and still keep challenging our knowledge about the properties of the created system and its dynamical evolution. In this contribution we give an overview of the recent findings on strangeness production from HADES, with a special emphasis on the data from Au+Au collisions at 1.23 A GeV. We discuss particle yields with respect to several transport and a statistical model fit and put a special emphasis on the rise of the ϕ/K− ratio towards lower energies and its implication for the interpretation of sequential kaon freeze-out.

        Speaker: Manuel Lorenz (University Frankfurt)
    • 1:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch break
    • 2:00 PM 6:00 PM
      Free afternoon
    • 6:00 PM 8:00 PM
      Advisory Board
    • 9:00 AM 1:00 PM
      Plenary session Oratorium Marianum

      Oratorium Marianum

      University of Wrocław

      Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1
      • 9:00 AM
        Heavy flavor production at the QCD phase boundary 30m
        Speaker: Johanna Stachel (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
      • 9:30 AM
        Fluctuation observables in heavy ion collisions 30m
        Speaker: Volker Koch (LBNL)
      • 10:00 AM
        QCD transition and chemical freezeout in the presence of magnetic field 30m
        Speaker: Kenji Fukushima (The University of Tokyo)
      • 10:30 AM
        Coffee break 30m
      • 11:00 AM
        Effective dynamical models for fluctuations at the QCD transition 30m
        Speaker: Marlene Nahrgang
      • 11:30 AM
        On spectral functions and transport coefficients in QCD 30m

        The computation of single particle spectral functions and transport coefficients with functional continuum methods is discussed. Results are presented for quark and meson, and glue ball spectral functions, as well as the temperature-dependent shear viscosity over entropy ratio.

        Speaker: Jan M. Pawlowski (University of Heidelberg)
      • 12:00 PM
        Understanding experimentally-observed fluctuations 30m

        Fluctuation observables in relativistic heavy ion collisions measured by event-by-event analysis are important observables for the study of thermodynamics in primordial stage. In this talk, I will discuss some problems which have to be considered seriously when one compares the experimental results on fluctuations with theoretical study. In particular, I will discuss (1)non-equilibrium property of fluctuations, (2)finite-volume effects, and (3)effects of non-perfectf efficiency of detectors on the measurement of fluctuations.
        Approaches to resolving these problems will also be discussed.

        Speaker: Masakiyo Kitazawa (Osaka University)
      • 12:30 PM
        From cold Fermi fluids to the hot QGP 30m
        Speaker: Marcus Bluhm (North Carolina State University)
    • 1:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch break
    • 2:00 PM 4:00 PM
      Parallel session 1 336 lecture Hall

      336 lecture Hall

      University of Wrocław

      Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1
      • 2:00 PM
        How to use Lattice and Experimental data for QCD Critical Point Search 30m
        Speaker: Atsushi Nakamura (Hiroshima Univ)
      • 2:30 PM
        Evaluation of the Motion of confined Particles 30m

        We carry out numerical evaluations of the motion of classical particles in Minkowski space ${\cal{M}}^4$ which are confined to the inside of a bag. In particular, we analyze the structure of the paths evolving from the breaking of the dilatation symmetry, the conformal symmetry and the combination of both together. The confining forces arise directly from the corresponding nonconserved currents. We demonstrate in our evaluations that these particles under specific initial conditions move toward the interior of the bag.

        Speakers: David Miller (Penn State), Dirk Rollmann (Bielefeld University)
      • 3:00 PM
        Particle production in nucleus-nucleus and pion-nucleus collisions at $E_\text{kin} = 0.8 - 2 A\,\text{GeV}$ 30m

        SMASH is a new hadronic transport model designed to describe the non-equilibrium evolution of heavy-ion collisions. After a brief introduction to the model, it will be shown that SMASH correctly reproduces the cross sections and maintains detailed balance. First comparisons to pion spectra measured by FOPI and HADES will be presented, demonstrating that the energy deposition and transverse expansion are correctly described. Predictions for the particle production in pion-nucleus collisions recently measured by HADES will be given. Understanding the hadronic interactions is the basis for the future exploration of effects of the phase transition.

        Speaker: Vinzent Steinberg
      • 3:30 PM
        Coffee break 30m
    • 2:00 PM 4:00 PM
      Parallel session 2 Oratorium Marianum

      Oratorium Marianum

      University of Wrocław

      Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1
      • 2:00 PM
        Thermal Dileptons as Fireball Probes at SIS Energies 30m Oratorium Marianum

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

        Electromagnetic probes are radiated during the whole time evolution of a heavy-ion collision. They decouple from the collision zone once they are produced and carry valuable information about the properties of matter created inside the hot and dense fireball to the detector.

        In particular, the yield of low-mass dileptons was identified to be sensitive to the fireball lifetime, while the slope in the intermediate-mass region of the dilepton invariant-mass spectrum can serve as a thermometer which is unaffected by blue-shift effects caused by the collective expansion of the medium [1].

        Realistic thermal dilepton emission rates and an accurate description of the fireball's space-time evolution are needed to properly describe the contribution of in-medium signals to the dilepton invariant-mass spectrum.

        Utilizing a coarse-graining method we extract local temperature, baryon and pion densities from hadronic transport simulations of Au+Au collisions at SIS energies. These serve as an input for the calculation of the pertinent radiation of thermal dileptons based on an in-medium $\rho$ spectral function that describes available spectra at ultrarelativistic collision energies.

        The obtained yields and slopes of the invariant-mass spectra [2] will be compared to the excitation function of the lifetime and temperatures of the fireball established at higher energies [1]. The results can serve as a baseline for future explorations by the HADES and CBM experiments at FAIR as well as the RHIC beam energy scan phase II.


        [1] R. Rapp and H. van Hees, Phys. Lett. B 753 (2016) 586.

        [2] T. Galatyuk, P. M. Hohler, R. Rapp, F. Seck and J. Stroth, arXiv:1512.08688 [nucl-th].

        Speaker: Florian Seck (TU Darmstadt)
      • 2:30 PM
        Electromagnetic probes from SIS18 to LHC energies in coarse-grained transport simulations 30m Oratorium Marianum

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

        Electromagnetic radiation in heavy-ion collisions at SIS18, FAIR, SPS, RHIC and LHC energies is studied within an approach which uses coarse-grained transport simulations to calculate thermal dilepton and photon emission applying in-medium spectral functions from hadronic many-body theory and partonic production rates based on lattice calculations. The microscopic output from the Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) model is hereby put on a grid of space-time cells which allows to extract the local temperature and chemical potential in each cell via an equation of state. The comparison of data and model outcome shows that the invariant mass and transverse momentum spectra can be described by a cocktail of hadronic decay contributions together with thermal emission from broadened vector-meson spectral functions and (for higher collision energies) from the Quark-Gluon Plasma phase. Besides a comparison to existing experimental data, predictions for LHC energies are presented and it is analysed under which conditions one might observe signals of a phase transition at FAIR energies. We argue that the high luminosities available at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research enable systematic studies of - e.g. - system size, energy and momentum dependence, which would allow for better constraints on existing models and a deeper insight into the structure of the QGP phase diagram.

        Speaker: Stephan Endres (Frankfurt University / Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)
      • 3:00 PM
        Non-perturbative production rate of photons with a lattice quark propagator – effect of vertex correction – 30m Oratorium Marianum

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

        We analyze the production rate of photons from the deconfined medium with a quark propagator obtained from a lattice QCD numerical simulation. We calculate the production rates non-perturbatively at two temperatures above $T_{\rm c}$. The photon-quark vertex is determined gauge-invariantly so as to satisfy the Ward-Takahashi identity. It is found that the vertex correction modifies spectra quantitatively. The photon production rate shows a peculiar structure reflecting the dispersion relations and kinematics of quasi-particles. We discuss the origin of this structure.

        Speaker: Taekwang Kim (Osaka University)
      • 3:30 PM
        Coffee break 30m Oratorium Marianum (University of Wrocław)

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1
    • 4:00 PM 6:15 PM
      Colloquium for Marek Gaździcki Oratorium Marianum

      Oratorium Marianum

      University of Wrocław

      Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1
      • 4:00 PM
        Energy scan programs in HIC 15m
        Speaker: Peter Seyboth (Jan Kochanowski University (PL))
      • 4:15 PM
        Evolution of the QCD phase diagram 30m
        Speaker: Gordon Baym (University of Illinois)
      • 4:45 PM
        Critical Point of Nuclear Matter 30m
        Speaker: Mark Gorenstein (Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics)
      • 5:15 PM
        Marek & Event-by-Event Fluctuations 30m
        Speaker: Stanisław Mrówczynski (Jan Kochanowski University)
      • 5:45 PM
        The Mar(e)k of QGP: Strangeness and Entropy 30m

        I look back at the early results of S+S collisions at 200 A GeV and related theoretical data analysis of more than 20 years ago, and compare these results with those we have since obtained in Pb-Pb reactions at SPS and LHC. The key signatures, strangeness and multistrange antibaryons, as well as entropy content of this small system do indicate development of conditions that are today associated with the formation of quark-gluon deconfined phase of matter. The forthcoming experimental effort to characterize the threshold of QGP formation as a function of collisions energy and reaction volume will be placed into strangeness and entropy context.

        Speaker: Johann Rafelski (University of Arizona)
    • 6:30 PM 10:30 PM
      Conference Dinner
    • 9:00 AM 1:00 PM
      Plenary session Oratorium Marianum

      Oratorium Marianum

      University of Wrocław

      Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1
      • 9:00 AM
        Energy scan programs in HIC 30m
        Speaker: Anar Rustamov (National Nuclear Research Center (AZ))
      • 9:30 AM
        Interplay between deconfinement and chiral properties 30m

        We study the relation between quark confinement and chiral symmetry breaking, and investigate interplay between confinement/deconfinement and chiral properties at finite temperatures. We analytically derive some relations of the Polyakov loop or its fluctuations with Dirac eigenmodes in temporally odd-number lattice QCD [1,2]. For the these quantities related to confinement, the contribution from the low-lying Dirac eigenmodes is found to be negligibly small, while the modes are essential for chiral symmetry breaking. This result indicates that there is no direct, one-to-one correspondence between confinement/deconfinement and chiral symmetry breaking in QCD.

        [1] T. M. Doi, K. Redlich, C. Sasaki and H. Suganuma, Phys. Rev. D92, 094004 (2015).

        [2] T. M. Doi, H. Suganuma and T. Iritani, Phys. Rev. D90, 094505 (2014); H. Suganuma, T. M. Doi and T. Iritani, Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2016, 013B06 (2016).

        Speaker: Hideo Suganuma (Kyoto University)
      • 10:00 AM
        $SU(2N_F)$ symmetry of QCD at high temperature and its implications 30m

        Given a gap in the Dirac spectrum at $T > T_c$ we show that the high-temperature QCD has a $SU(2N_F)$ symmetry. This symmetry prohibits the on-shell propagation of quarks and the only possible elementary objects in Minkowski space-time are confined $SU(2N_F)$ symmetric "hadrons". We discuss what should be measured on the lattice in order to clarify a structure of these objects in order to understand what kind of matter we have in QCD at high temperature. An important question is also how we could experimentally distinguish it from the "quark-gluon plasma" picture.

        Speaker: Leonid Glozman
      • 10:30 AM
        Coffee break 30m
      • 11:00 AM
        Thermal Model Description of Collisions of Small Nuclei. 30m

        The dependence of particle production on the size of the colliding nuclei is
        analysed in terms of the thermal model using the canonical ensemble.
        The concept of strangeness correlation in clusters of sub-volume $V_C$ is used
        to account for the suppression of strangeness.
        A systematic analysis is presented of the predictions of the thermal model
        for particle production in collisions of small nuclei.
        The pattern of the maxima in particle ratios as
        a function of beam energy is quite special, as they do not occur at the same beam energy.
        Also, the $\Lambda/\pi^+$ ratio shows a clear maximum even for the smallest systems
        while the maximum in the $K^+/\pi^+$ ratio disappears in small systems.

        Speaker: Jean Cleymans (University of Cape Town)
      • 11:30 AM
        Search for a mixed phase of QCD matter at NICA 30m

        The Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility (NICA) project is now under active realization at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna). The main goal of the project is an experimental study of hot and dense strongly interacting matter in heavy ion (up to Au) collisions at centre-of-mass energies up to 11 GeV per nucleon. Two modes of the operation are foreseen, collider mode and extracted beams, with the two detectors, MPD and BM@N. In the collider mode the average luminosity is 10E27 cm-2 s-1 for Au(79+). The fixed target experiment BM@N at the JINR superconducting synchrotron Nuclotron is in a preparation stage. Extracted beams of various nucleus species with maximum momenta 13 GeV/c (for protons) will be available. The NICA project also foresees a study of spin physics with the detector SPD with extracted and colliding beams of polarized deuterons and protons at centre-of-mass energies up to 27 GeV (for protons). The proposed program allows to search for possible signs of the phase transitions and critical phenomena as well as to shed light on the problem of nucleon spin structure. General design, construction status and physics program of the NICA complex will be presented.

        Speaker: Alexander Sorin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna)
      • 12:00 PM
        Polyakov loop fluctuations in terms of Dirac eigenmodes 30m

        We investigate the relation between quark confinement and chiral symmetry breaking in the finite-temperature lattice QCD. First of all, we derive analytical formulae to express the Polyakov loop and its fluctuations in terms of the Dirac eigenmodes[1-3]. Based on the analytical formulae, it is shown that the low-lying Dirac modes have little contribution to the quantities such as the Polyakov loop and its fluctuations while these modes are important for chiral symmetry breaking. In other words, the result means no direct one-to-one correspondence between confinement and chiral symmetry breaking in QCD. In our talk, we present our results including the numerical results and the recent developments.

        [1] T. M. Doi, K. Redlich, C. Sasaki and H. Suganuma, Phys. Rev. D92, 094004 (2015).

        [2] T. M. Doi, H. Suganuma and T. Iritani, Phys. Rev. D90, 094505 (2014).

        [3] H. Suganuma, T. M. Doi and T. Iritani, Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2016, 013B06 (2016).

        Speaker: Takahiro Doi (Japan/Kyoto University)
      • 12:30 PM
        Generalized Beth-Uhlenbeck approach to quark-hadron matter 30m

        An effective model for low-energy QCD thermodynamics is presented which provides a microscopic interpretation of the transition from a gas of hadron resonances to the quark-gluon plasma by Mott dissociation of hadrons. The self consistent approximation scheme of the Φ-derivable approach is applied to describe the thermodynamics of the Polyakov loop extended Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model which is shown to take the form of a Generalized Beth-Uhlenbeck (GBU) equation of state. This approach goes beyond the mean-field description of quark matter by taking into account hadronic correlations (bound and scattering states) as well as their backreaction on the quasiparticle properties of the constituents. The approach is straightforwardly extended to include more hadronic degrees of freedom than just the low-lying pseudoscalar mesons. To this end a model for the generic behavior of hadron masses and phase shifts at finite temperature is employed which shares the basic features with the PNJL model for correlations in quark matter. The results compare well with data from lattice QCD simulations [1].

        [1] D. Blaschke, A. Dubinin, L. Turko, in preparation (2016)

        Speaker: David Blaschke (University of Wroclaw)
    • 1:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch break
    • 2:00 PM 6:00 PM
      Parallel session 1 336 lecture Hall

      336 lecture Hall

      University of Wrocław

      Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1
      • 2:00 PM
        Across deconfinement transition 30m

        The deconfinement transition at vanishing chemical potential can be reliably studied by lattice simulations and its general features are by now well known. On the contrary, what happens at finite density is still largely unknown and in this talk I will review the results obtained in the last year regarding the dependence, for small density, of the (pseudo)critical temperature on the baryonic chemical potential.

        Speaker: Claudio Bonati (University of Pisa)
      • 2:30 PM
        Searching for the QCD critical point through power-law fluctuations of the proton density in heavy ion collisions 30m
        Speaker: Nikolaos Davis (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
      • 3:00 PM
        Critical Phenomena in the Nonextensive Nambu Jona-Lasinio Model 30m

        We present a thermodynamical analysis of the nonextensive, QCD-based, Nambu - Jona-Lasinio model (NJL) of strongly interacting matter in the critical region. It is based on the nonextensive generalization of the Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) statistical mechanics, used in the NJL model, to its nonextensive version. This can be introduced in different ways, depending on different possible choices of the form of the corresponding nonextensive entropies, which are all presented and discussed in detail. Unlike previous attempts the present approach fulfils the basic requirements of thermodynamical consistency. Detailed calculations of entropy and specific heat are presented. Phase diagram in the critical region, in the in the (T,μ) plane, is shown for different values of non-extensivity.

        Speaker: Jacek Rożynek (NCBJ Warsaw Poland)
      • 3:30 PM
        Coffee break 30m
      • 4:00 PM
        Dynamical gap generation in graphene with frequency dependent renormalization effects 30m

        In recent years there has been much interest in the study of graphene, which is a 2-dimensional crystal of carbon atoms that exhibits many interesting electronic properties and quantum effects. The dynamical generation of a gap would cause the system to undergo a phase transition to an insulating state. From a technological point of view, a finite gap would make graphene more promising as a potential material for producing novel electronic devices. A gap would also be theoretically interesting as a concrete realization of the phenomena of chiral symmetry breaking.

        We consider the simplest form, mono-layer suspended graphene at half filling. The low energy dynamics are described by a continuum quantum field theory. The effective coupling is of order c/v_F ~ 300 times the fine structure constant of QED, where v_F is the velocity of a free electron in graphene. The system is strongly coupled and non-perturbative.

        We solve a set of coupled Schwinger Dyson equations for frequency dependent fermion dressing functions. We include vertex corrections (using an ansatz which is constructed to preserve gauge invariance). We study frequency dependencies in the renormalization of the fermion Green functions and their influence on dynamical gap generation. The result is a critical coupling of ~3.2. This is slightly larger than the most recent calculations in the literature and predicts (in agreement with experiment) that the insulating state does not form.

        Speaker: Margaret Carrington (Brandon University)
      • 4:30 PM
        Field-particle dynamics for the kinetics of the chiral phase transition 30m

        We simulate the kinetics of the chiral phase transition in hot and dense
        strongly interacting matter within a novel kinetic-theory approach. Employing
        an effective linear $\sigma$ model for quarks, $\sigma$ mesons, and
        pions we treat the quarks within a test-particle ansatz for solving the
        Boltzmann transport equation and the mesons in terms of classical
        fields. The decay-recombination processes like
        $\sigma \leftrightarrow \bar{q}+q$ are treated using a kind of
        wave-particle dualism using the exact conservation of energy and
        momentum. After demonstrating the correct thermodynamic limit for
        particles and fields in a "box
        calculation'' we apply the simulation to the dynamics of an expanding
        fireball similar to the medium created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion
        collisions.

        Speaker: Hendrik van Hees (Goethe University Frankfurt)
      • 5:00 PM
        Symmetry breaking effect on the inhomogeneous chiral phase in the external magnetic field 30m

        The existence of the inhomogeneous chiral phase, where the chiral condensate is spatially modulated has been discussed from some effective model analysis.
        The phase seems to emerge in compact stars because it appears around the conventional chiral phase transition line in the QCD phase diagram.
        Assuming an inhomogeneous configuration called "dual chiral density wave (DCDW)", where both scalar and pseudoscalar condensates are spatially modulated,
        the external magnetic field extends the DCDW phase over the low chemical potential ($\mu$) region except for $\mu=0$ in the chiral limit [1].
        It seems the spread DCDW phase can be explored by the lattice QCD simulation.

        Therefore we constitute the thermodynamic potential including the finite current quark mass around the critical point by the generalized Ginzburg-Landau expansion [2] to consider the effect of the explicit chiral symmetry breaking on the inhomogeneous chiral phase transition.
        Consequently, we can see that the strong magnetic field extends the DCDW phase over the low $\mu$ region even if the current quark mass is finite [3].
        The possibility of the exploration by the lattice QCD is phenomenologically discussed based on the result.
        Besides, the inverse magnetic catalysis is also argued in the present model.

        Reference

        [1] T. Tatsumi, K. Nishiyama and S. Karasawa, Phys. Lett. B743, 66 (2015)

        [2] D. Nickel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 072301 (2009)

        [3] R. Yoshiike and T. Tatsumi, Phys. Rev. D92, 116009 (2015)

        Speaker: Ryo Yoshiike (Kyoto university)
      • 5:30 PM
        Relaxation rates and phase transitions 30m

        Using a bottom-up gauge gravity constructions, relaxation rates of strongly coupled field theories are computed. A variety of phase structures are considered, from a crossover up to a first order phase transition. It is established that near the transition the applicability of a hydrodynamic description breaks down at lower momenta than in the conformal case. In the case of the first order phase transition, a spinodal region appears at temperatures for which the speed of sound squared is negative. An estimate of the preferential scale attained by the unstable modes is also given. Additionally we observe a novel diffusive regime for sound modes over a range of wavelengths. Additionally, for a range of wavelengths we observe a novel diffusive regime for sound modes.

        Speaker: Jakub Jankowski (Jagiellonian University)
    • 2:00 PM 6:00 PM
      Parallel session 2 Oratorium Marianum

      Oratorium Marianum

      University of Wrocław

      Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1
      • 2:00 PM
        Higher order moments of net-charge multiplicity distribution in p+p interactions at SPS energies from NA61/SHINE 30m Oratorium Marianum

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

        NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS is a fixed-target experiment pursuing a rich physics program including measurements for heavy ion, neutrino and cosmic ray physics. The main goal of the ion program is to study the properties of the onset of deconfinement and to search for the signatures of the critical point. Specific property of the critical point – increase in the correlation length – makes fluctuations its basic signal. Recently, special interest is paid towards fluctuations of higher order moments as they are more sensitive to the correlation length than typically studied second order moments.

        In this contribution preliminary results on higher order fluctuations of negatively charged hadrons and net-charge distribution in p+p interactions will be shown. The new data will be compared with model predictions.

        Speaker: Maja Katarzyna Maćkowiak-Pawłowska (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))
      • 2:30 PM
        Dynamical fluctuations near the QCD critical point and their impact on the net-proton kurtosis 30m Oratorium Marianum

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

        We investigate the kurtosis of the net-proton number and the chiral order parameter within the model of nonequilibrium chiral fluid dynamics for a crossover scenario near the critical point. Our model describes the interplay between a dynamical order parameter and a quark-gluon fluid during the expansion of the hot fireball created in a heavy-ion collision. A subsequent particlization process allows us to study experimental observables via an event-by-event analysis. We aim at understanding the different impact of two distinct sources of fluctuations: First, initial state fluctuations and second, critical fluctuations created at the phase transition. Our results show that only the latter ones help develop a characteristic signal in the net-proton kurtosis around the crossover transition. We demonstrate that a suppression of the kurtosis is related to the equilibrium signal for criticality as seen in the net-baryon number susceptibility. Although effects of finite size and inhomogeneity are present, the signal in the net-proton kurtosis develops clearly.

        Speaker: Christoph Herold (Suranaree University of Technology)
      • 3:00 PM
        PHENIX results on collective effects in small systems 30m Oratorium Marianum

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

        Extensive measurements of azimuthal anisotropy
        in heavy-ion collisions, have provided invaluable
        insights on the expansion dynamics and the transport properties of the
        strongly interacting matter produced in collisions at RHIC and the LHC.
        However, recently a number of measurements from high-multiplicity collisions
        in small systems at RHIC and LHC, such as p+p, p+A, or d+Au, have found strong
        presence of flow-like collective effects.
        A crucial open question is whether a fundamental change occurs in the
        reaction dynamics and the particle production mechanism, when the
        collision system-size is reduced from the values produced in central and
        mid-central heavy-ion collisions, to those obtained in small systems.

        In recent experiments, the PHENIX Collaboration has made detailed differential
        measurements of anisotropic flow coefficients $v_n$ of charged hadrons emerged
        from p+Au, d+Au and 3He+Au collisions at 200 GeV.
        The results from these measurements will be presented and discussed.
        Detailed comparisons to different model predictions and LHC data will be shown
        as appropriate.

        Speaker: Arkadiy Taranenko (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (RU))
      • 3:30 PM
        Coffee break 30m Oratorium Marianum (University of Wrocław)

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1
      • 4:00 PM
        Measurement of virtual photons radiated from Au+Au collisions at 𝐸beam = 1.23A GeV with HADES 30m Oratorium Marianum

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

        Dileptons are a unique probe to study microscopic properties of nuclear matter under extreme
        conditions of temperature and density achieved in heavy-ion collisions. The low-mass excess radiation
        (above cocktail) observed from SIS to top RHIC energies is well understood theoretically in terms of
        strict VMD assuming strong broadening of the in-medium rho spectral function. This broadening is
        linked to the coupling of vector mesons to baryons and anti-baryons and is expected to be maximal in
        baryon-rich medium as formed at lowest beam energies.

        This is the paramount topic of the experimental program of HADES conducted at SIS18 accelerator
        in GSI. Strong, non-linear system size dependence of the integrated yield above the NN reference
        has been extracted from former C+C and Ar+KCl runs [1].
        This contribution will present results on virtual photon production from high statistics Au+Au at
        $𝐸_{\textrm{beam}}$ = 1.23A$~$GeV data and confront them with the reference measured by HADES as well as with
        available model predictions. The integrated excess yield will be put in context of the dilepton
        excitation function measured in RHIC beam energy scan.

        [1] G. Agakishiev et al. [HADES Collaboration], Phys. Rev. C 84 (2011) 014902

        This work has been supported by TU Darmstadt: VH-NG-823, Helmholtz Alliance HA216/EMMI
        and GSI.

        Speaker: Szymon Harabasz (TU Darmstadt / Jagiellonian University)
      • 4:30 PM
        PHENIX Levy analysis of Bose-Einstein correlation functions 30m Oratorium Marianum

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

        The importance of the RHIC beam energy scan program is that comparing results at different energies (varied in the region where the transition from hadronic to quark matter is expected to occur) allows us to investigate the structure of QCD matter, and the quark-hadron transition. One of the best tools to gain information about the (soft) particle-emitting source is the measurement of Bose-Einstein or HBT correlations of identical bosons. ​​Today, high energy physics experiments measure the scale parameter of these correlation functions (often called HBT radii) as a function of particle type, transverse momentum, azimuthal angle, collision energy, collision geometry. In this talk I present results from the RHIC PHENIX experiment, related to Bose-Einstein correlations and the search for the critical point. In our latest measurements, we utilize Levy-type sources, whose index of stability alpha may also yield information on the nature of the quark-hadron phase transition. I will discuss what the beam energy dependence of the pion source tells us about the critical point, then I present the latest status of the analysis of the Levy source parameters as a function of transverse momentum, and explain how the non-Gaussian shape of correlation functions is related to one of the critical exponents.

        Speaker: Dániel Kincses (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)
      • 5:00 PM
        Event-by-event multiplicity fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisions 30m Oratorium Marianum

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

        Non-critical thermal fluctuations are important baselines in search of the critical point for the RHIC beam energy scan program. In this talk, we present our investigations on the non-critical baselines of cumulants of (net-conserved) charge distributions in relativistic heavy ion collisions. By deriving a general formula of multiplicity distribution in connect with the method used in experiment, we demonstrate the mismatch between experimental measurements (conditional probability distributions) and previous theoretical calculations (probability distributions in a given thermal system) on multiplicity distributions. From the general formula, we investigate how to obtain the basic statistical expectations of higher order cumulants from experiments with the help of the data of the reference multiplicity distribution and mean value distribution. We find that the improved baseline measure for multiplicity distribution mimics the negative binomial distribution instead of Poisson one, though the Poisson distribution was used as input in a specific statistical ensemble. Recently, we implement this idea to event-by-event hybrid model simulations, and calculate the higher order cumulants of charge (proton) distributions in HIC. Our results reasonably reproduce the data at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV but shows deviations at lower collisional energies.

        References:

        HJX, On the multiplicity distribution in statistical model: (I) negative binomial distribution, arXiv:1602.06378.

        Jixin Li, HJX, Huichao Song, Event-by-event multiplicity fluctuations in VISHNU hybrid model, in prepare.

        Speaker: Haojie Xu (Peking University)
      • 5:30 PM
        Fluctuations of the freeze-out temperature in Pb-Pb collisions at LHC 30m Oratorium Marianum

        Oratorium Marianum

        University of Wrocław

        Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

        Many data in the High Energy Physics are, in fact, sample means. It is shown that
        when this exact meaning of the data is taken into account and the most weakly
        bound states are removed from the hadron resonance gas, the acceptable fit to the
        whole spectra of pions, kaons and protons measured at midrapidity in central Pb-Pb
        collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76$ TeV is obtained. The invariant distributions
        are predicted with the help of the Single-Freeze-Out Model (SFOM) in the chemical
        equilibrium framework. The new idea introduced into the SFOM in this work is to
        randomize one of the parameters of the model. It has turned out that the
        successful improvement is achieved only when the freeze-out temperature becomes a
        random variable and nothing is gained with the randomization of geometric
        parameters of the model. Low $p_{T}$ pions and protons are reproduced simultaneously
        as well as $p/\pi$ ratio. Additionally, correct predictions extend over lower
        parts of large $p_{T}$ data. The method is applied to other centrality bins of
        Pb-Pb collisions and the results are also presented. Some more general, possible
        implications of this approach are pointed out.

        Based on: D.Prorok, "Single Freeze-Out, Statistics and Pion, Kaon and Proton Production in Central Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76$ TeV'', J. Phys. G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 43 (2016) 055101.

        Speaker: Dariusz Prorok (University of Wroclaw, Poland)
    • 9:00 AM 1:00 PM
      Plenary session Oratorium Marianum

      Oratorium Marianum

      University of Wrocław

      Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1
      • 9:00 AM
        Transport Theory Based on the Nambu—Jona-Lasinio Lagrangian 30m

        Starting from the (Polyakov-) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Lagrangian, (P)NJL, we formulate a transport theory which allows for describing the expansion of a quark-antiquark plasma and the subsequent transition to the hadronic world ---without adding
        any new parameter to the standard (P)NJL approach, whose parameters are fixed to vacuum physics. This transport theory can be used to describe ultrarelativistic heavy-ion reaction data as well as to study the (first-order) phase
        transition during the expansion of the plasma. (P)NJL predicts such a phase transition for finite chemical potentials. In this contribution we give an outline of the necessary steps to obtain such a transport theory and present first results.

        Speaker: Joerg Aichelin (Subatech)
      • 9:30 AM
        Correlated fluctuations near the QCD critical point 30m

        Recently, the STAR beam energy scan (BES) measured the multiplicity distributions of net protons with the maximum transverse momentum extended from 0.8 GeV to 2 GeV. The related higher cumulants (moments) present large deviations from the poisson baselines, showing the potential of discovery the QCD critical point in experiment.

        In this talk, we introduce a freeze-out scheme for the dynamical models near the QCD critical point through coupling the classical particles with the correlated fluctuating sigma field [2]. For an infinite and stationary medium, such freeze-out scheme can reproduce the standard Staphanov formulas [3] for critical fluctuations. Within this framework, we calculate the correlated fluctuations of net protons emitted from the hydrodynamic freeze-out surface at various collision energies. A comparison with recent STAR BES data shows that our model could reproduce kurtosis (and C4) through tuning the related parameters, but always over-predicts the C2 and C3 data with the poisson/binomial baselines due to the positive contributions from the static critical fluctuations [2]. In the later part of this talk, we will briefly discuss the dynamical critical fluctuations, showing that the sign of C3 could be solved by the memory effects after a dynamical evolution [4].

        [1] X. Luo PoS CPOD2014, 019 (2014).
        [2] Lijia Jiang, Pengfei Li, Huichao Song, arXiv:1502.06164[nucl-th].
        [3] M. Stephanov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 032301 (2009).
        [4] Lijia Jiang and Huichao Song, in preparation.

        Speaker: Huichao Song (Peking Univ.)
      • 10:00 AM
        Collective dynamics in smal sysytems 30m

        The presence of collective expansion in small collision is discussed.
        Approaches based on relativistic hydrodynamics are compared to existing data.
        Possibilities to study fluctuations in the interaction region in small collision systems
        are described.

        Speaker: Piotr Bożek (AGH University of Science and Technology)
      • 10:30 AM
        Coffee break 30m
      • 11:00 AM
        Recent progress in understanding deconfinement and chiral symmetry breaking transitions 30m

        While the crucial role of gauge topology was recognized from 1970’s,
        confinement was associated with monopoles and chiral symmetry breaking with instantons.
        Recognizing presence of non-zero holonomy, van Baal and others discovered
        splitting of the instantons into their constituents — the instanton-dyons.
        Several groups now work out properties of their ensembles, which generate
        both
        the deconfinement and chiral phase transitions in QCD-like theories.
        Introducing variable phases for quark periodicity conditions — known as flavor holonomies — one can switch fermion coupling to different dyons, and thus dramatically
        change both the order and temperature of both transitions. First lattice studies of
        modified — so called $Z_N$-symmetric QCD — have also found these effects.

        Speaker: Edward Shuryak (Stony Brook University)
      • 11:30 AM
        Off-equilibrium Non-Gaussian Cumulants: criticality, complexity, and universality 30m

        Non-equilibrium evolution of cumulants of critical fluctuations for space-time trajectories on the cross-over side of the QCD phase diagram we be discussed in detail. Memory effects are important. Utilizing a simple model of the space-time evolution of a heavy-ion collision, we demonstrate that, depending on the relaxation rate of critical fluctuations, Skewness and Kurtosis can differ significantly in magnitude as well as in sign from equilibrium expectations. Furthermore, we demonstrate that key features of the Kibble-Zurek framework of non-equilibrium phase transitions can be employed to extract the dynamics of critical cumulants for differing protocols–trajectories in the space of parameters in the vicinity of the QCD critical point. For a broad classification of crossover protocols, universal scaling functions are obtained for the cumulants that are insensitive to the parameters governing the protocols. As a consequence of this non-equilibrium universality, a map of the details of critical dynamics in heavy-ion collisions to the relevant Kibble-Zurek parameters is feasible and provides powerful model independent guidance in searches for the QCD critical point.

        Speaker: Swagato Mukherjee (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 12:00 PM
        Probing the nature of phases across the phase transition at finite isospin chemical potential 30m

        We compare the low eigenvalue spectra of the Overlap Dirac
        operator on two sets of configurations at $\mu_I/mu_I^c = 0.5$ and $1.5$ generated with dynamical staggered fermions at these isospin chemical potential on $24^3 \times 6$ lattices. We find very small changes in the number of zero modes and low lying modes across the transition which is in stark contrast with those across the corresponding finite temperature phases where one sees a drop across the phase transition. Possible consequences
        are discussed.

        Speaker: Rajiv V Gavai (Tata Institute, Mumbai, India)
      • 12:30 PM
        Wounded quarks at the LHC 30m

        We apply the wounded quark model to particle production and properties of the initial fireball in A+A, p+A, and p+p collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We find uniformity of the approach, as similar production of initial entropy per source
        is needed to explain particle production in all studied reactions and at all centralities. We also investigate event-by-event initial eccentricities and sizes, finding results as good or better than from the Glauber model with nucleons. In conclusion, the wounded quarks can be used as effective degrees of freedom at the LHC.

        Speaker: Wojciech Broniowski (IFJ PAN)