Conveners
Parallel Session - Search for the CP I
- Bedangadas Mohanty (Institute of Physics)
One of the key goals of nuclear collision experiments is to map the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter. At LHC energies there would be, for vanishing light quark masses, a temperature-driven genuine phase transition of second order between the hadron gas and the quark-gluon plasma. For realistic quark masses, however, this transition becomes a smooth cross over. Nevertheless, due to...
Higher-order cumulants of conserved quantities (B, Q, S) are sensitive observables to study the QCD phase structures, nature of quark-hadron phase transition and freeze-out dynamics.
In this talk, we will present new measurements of sixth to second-order cumulant ratios (C6/C2) of net-proton distributions in Au+Au collisions at sNN =54.4 and 200 GeV, as well as cumulants up to the...
The aim of the NA61/SHINE strong interaction programme is to explore the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter. The main physics goals are the study of the onset of deconfinement and the search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter. These goals are pursued by performing a beam momentum (13A - 158A GeV/c) and system size (p+p, p+Pb, Be+Be, Ar+Sc, Xe+La, Pb+Pb) scan. This...
The physics program of the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at FAIR is focused on the measurement of properties of nuclear matter at high net-baryonic density. This experiment will offer the possibility to find signatures of discontinuous transition from QGP to hadronic phase and the QCD critical point where the first order phase transition ends. In the search of the QCD phase...
For the discovery of the QCD critical point it is crucial to develop dynamical models of the fluctuations of the net-baryon number that can be embedded in simulations of heavy-ion collisions.
In this talk we present the implementation of net-baryon number fluctuations near the critical point in an expanding system. We include the coupling to the fluctuations of energy density and momentum...
