Speaker
Prof.
Kemal Basar
(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Description
Determining the existence and the location of the QCD critical point remains a major open problem, both theoretically and experimentally. In this work, I present a new way of reconstructing the equation of state in the vicinity of the nearest thermodynamic singularity (the Lee-Yang edge singularity in the crossover region) from a truncated Taylor series expansion in baryon chemical potential. Then, I show that this information can be used to (i) determine the location of the critical point and (ii) constrain the non-universal mapping parameters between the Ising and QCD equations of state.
Author
Prof.
Kemal Basar
(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
