QCD Equation of State of Dense Nuclear Matter from a Bayesian Analysis of Heavy-Ion Collision Data

Nov 21, 2022
7 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 131 (2023) 20, 202303
  • Published: Nov 16, 2023
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Abstract: (APS)
Bayesian methods are used to constrain the density dependence of the QCD equation of state (EOS) for dense nuclear matter using the data of mean transverse kinetic energy and elliptic flow of protons from heavy ion collisions (HICs), in the beam energy range sNN=210GeV. The analysis yields tight constraints on the density dependent EOS up to 4 times the nuclear saturation density. The extracted EOS yields good agreement with other observables measured in HIC experiments and constraints from astrophysical observations both of which were not used in the inference. The sensitivity of inference to the choice of observables is also discussed.
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  • Replaced with the published version
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • beam: energy
  • quantum chromodynamics: equation of state
  • saturation: density
  • energy: kinetic
  • p: elliptic flow
  • nuclear matter
  • density dependence
  • Bayesian
  • numerical methods