Abstract
We present a phenomenological parametrization of the phase diagram of QCD as a function of temperature T and baryochemical potential µ. The parametrization is constructed by introducing a switching function which controls the nature of the transition between the Hadron-Resonance Gas (HRG) and Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) phases of nuclear matter, such that the equation of state (EOS) possesses a rapid crossover at large T and small µ, a critical point placed anywhere along the phase transition line, and a first-order transition at small T and large µ. This EOS offers a convenient phenomenological tool for assessing the possible effects of the conjectured QCD critical point on heavy-ion observables.
Original language | English (US) |
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Journal | Proceedings of Science |
Volume | 347 |
State | Published - 2018 |
Event | 2018 Corfu Summer Institute "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity", CORFU 2018 - Corfu, Greece Duration: Aug 31 2018 → Sep 28 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:CP thanks Aleksi Kurkela and Jorge Noronha for useful discussions. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Grant No. DE-FG02-87ER40328. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) at the University of Minnesota for providing resources that contributed to the results presented in this work.
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