Higher order fluctuations and correlations of conserved charges from lattice QCD

May 11, 2018
23 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 10 (2018) 205
  • Published: Oct 31, 2018
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Abstract: (Springer)
We calculate several diagonal and non-diagonal fluctuations of conserved charges in a system of 2+1+1 quark flavors with physical masses, on a lattice with size 483^{3} × 12. Higher order fluctuations at μB_{B} = 0 are obtained as derivatives of the lower order ones, simulated at imaginary chemical potential. From these correlations and fluctuations we construct ratios of net-baryon number cumulants as functions of temperature and chemical potential, which satisfy the experimental conditions of strangeness neutrality and proton/baryon ratio. Our results qualitatively explain the behavior of the measured cumulant ratios by the STAR collaboration.
Note:
  • 22 pages, 12 figures
  • Lattice QCD
  • Phase Diagram of QCD
  • Quark-Gluon Plasma
  • charge: conservation law
  • potential: chemical
  • quark: flavor: 4
  • fluctuation
  • higher-order
  • correlation
  • quantum chromodynamics