Fluctuations and Correlations of net baryon number, electric charge, and strangeness: A comparison of lattice QCD results with the hadron resonance gas model

Collaboration
Mar, 2012
17 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 86 (2012) 034509
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We calculate the quadratic fluctuations of net baryon number, electric charge and strangeness as well as correlations among these conserved charges in (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD at zero chemical potential. Results are obtained using calculations with tree level improved gauge and the highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) actions with almost physical light and strange quark masses at three different values of the lattice cut-off. Our choice of parameters corresponds to a value of 160 MeV for the lightest pseudo scalar Goldstone mass and a physical value of the kaon mass. The three diagonal charge susceptibilities and the correlations among conserved charges have been extrapolated to the continuum limit in the temperature interval 150 MeV
Note:
  • 17 pages, 18 EPS-files, 5 tables, revised version includes continuum limit extrapolations of off-diagonal susceptibilities, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
  • 12.38.Gc
  • 11.15.Ha
  • charge: electric
  • charge: conservation law
  • charge: fluctuation
  • baryon number: fluctuation
  • strangeness: fluctuation
  • hadron: resonance: gas
  • potential: chemical
  • quark: staggered