Heavy ion collisions and lattice QCD at finite baryon density
Apr, 20045 pages
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- J.Phys.G 30 (2004) S1271-S1274
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Abstract:
We discuss a relation between the QCD thermodynamics obtained from a statistical analysis of particle production in heavy ion collisions at SPS and RHIC energies and recent LGT results at finite chemical potential. We show that basic thermodynamic properties obtained from the phenomenological statistical operator of a hadron resonance gas that describes particle yields in heavy ion collisions are consistent with recent LGT results. We argue that for the equation of state derived from Monte--Carlo simulations of two quark--flavor QCD at finite chemical potential can be well described by a hadron resonance gas when using the same set of approximations as used in LGT calculations. We examine the influence of a finite quark mass on the position of the deconfinement transition in temperature and chemical potential plane.Note:
- To appear in the proceedings of 17in International Conference on Ultra Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2004), Oakland, California, 11-17 Jan 2004
- talk: Oakland 2004/01/11
- scattering: heavy ion
- hadron: hadroproduction
- thermodynamics
- quantum chromodynamics
- lattice field theory
- baryon: density
- potential: chemical
- hadron: gas
- critical phenomena
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