Collapse of flow: probing the order of the phase transition

  • We discuss the present collective flow signals for the phase transition to the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and the collective flow as a barometer for the equation of state (EoS). We emphasize the importance of the flow excitation function from 1 to 50A GeV: here the hydrodynamicmodel has predicted the collapse of the v1-flow at ~ 10A GeV and of the v2-flow at ~ 40A GeV. In the latter case, this has recently been observed by the NA49 collaboration. Since hadronic rescattering models predict much larger flow than observed at this energy, we interpret this observation as potential evidence for a first order phase transition at high baryon density pB.

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Author:Horst StöckerORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-52050
URL:http://pos.sissa.it/archive/conferences/047/025/CPOD07_025.pdf
Parent Title (German):Proceedings of science, 2007 ; The 4th ed. of the internat. workshop - The Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement - July 9-13 2007, Ges. für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2010
Year of first Publication:2007
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2010/12/02
Page Number:12
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Source:POS; http://pos.sissa.it/archive/conferences/047/025/CPOD07_025.pdf ; The 4th ed. of the internat. workshop - The Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement - July 9-13 2007, Ges. für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
HeBIS-PPN:229196306
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS)
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Keine kommerzielle Nutzung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen