Conveners
Session V
- Chihiro Sasaki
NA61/SHINE is a multi-purpose experiment to study hadron-proton, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) with a large acceptance detector system. The measurements performed for a wide range of reactions provide valuable data for studying properties of hadronic matter under extreme conditions. They also provide precise results on hadron...
The search for experimental signatures of the critical point (CP) of strongly
interacting matter is one of the main objectives of the NA61/SHINE experiment
at CERN SPS. In the course of the experiment, an energy (beam momentum 13A
– 150A GeV/c) and system size (p+p, p+Pb, Be+Be, Ar+Sc, Xe+La) scan is
performed.
We investigate local proton density fluctuations connected to the...
The study of hadron formation, interaction and their properties in hot and dense QCD matter is one of the main topics in sub-nuclear physics. The short-lived states ($\sim$1 fm/c), produced and decayed within the QCD matter contain fundamental information about the surrounding medium created in collisions of heavy-ions at relativistic energies as well as about the interaction. HADES measures...
Fluctuations of the net-proton number can be measured experimentally and
thus provide important information about the matter created during heavy
ion collisions. Especially, these quantities may give clues about the
conjectured QCD critical point. We discuss the beam-energy dependence of
ratios of first four cumulants of the net-proton number, obtained using
the phenomenologically motivated...
Recent lattice QCD studies at vanishing density exhibit the parity-doubling structure for the low-lying baryons around the chiral crossover temperature. This finding is likely an imprint of the chiral symmetry restoration in the baryonic sector of QCD, and is expected to occur also in cold dense matter, which makes it of major relevance for compact stars. By contrast, typical effective models...
