Net-baryon number variance and kurtosis within nonequilibrium chiral fluid dynamics

作者：Herold Christoph^*; Nahrgang Marlene; Yan Yupeng; Kobdaj Chinorat

来源：Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics , 2014, 41(11): 115106.

DOI：10.1088/0954-3899/41/11/115106

• relativistic heavy-ion collisions
• relativistic fluid dynamics
• dynamic symmetry breaking
• fluctuations at first-order phase transitions

We study the variance and kurtosis of the net-baryon number in a fluid dynamical model for heavy-ion collisions. It is based on an effective chiral model with dilatons for the strong coupling regime of QCD. Taking into account spinodal instabilities, we demonstrate that this model exhibits a diverging quark number susceptibility and kurtosis all along the spinodal lines of the first-order phase transition, with a change of universality class at the critical end point. During the (3 + 1) dimensional expansion of a hot and dense fireball, instabilities are created by fluctuations in the explicitly propagated chiral and dilaton field. We find a clear enhancement of event-by-event fluctuations of the baryon number at the critical point and first-order phase transition in comparison with an evolution through the crossover region.

• 出版日期2014-11