Evidence for chiral symmetry restoration in heavy-ion collisions
- We study the effect of the chiral symmetry restoration (CSR) on heavy-ion collisions observables in the energy range sNN=3–20GeV within the Parton-Hadron-String Dynamics (PHSD) transport approach. The PHSD includes the deconfinement phase transition as well as essential aspects of CSR in the dense and hot hadronic medium, which are incorporated in the Schwinger mechanism for particle production. Our systematic studies show that chiral symmetry restoration plays a crucial role in the description of heavy-ion collisions at sNN=3–20GeV, realizing an increase of the hadronic particle production in the strangeness sector with respect to the non-strange one. Our results provide a microscopic explanation for the horn structure in the excitation function of the K+/π+ ratio: the CSR in the hadronic phase produces the steep increase of this particle ratio up to sNN≈7GeV, while the drop at higher energies is associated to the appearance of a deconfined partonic medium. Furthermore, the appearance/disappearance of the horn structure is investigated as a function of the system size. We additionally present an analysis of strangeness production in the (T,μB)-plane (as extracted from the PHSD for central Au+Au collisions) and discuss the perspectives to identify a possible critical point in the phase diagram.
Author: | Pierre MoreauORCiDGND, Alessia PalmeseGND, Wolfgang CassingGND, Eduard SeifertGND, Thorsten SteinertGND, Elena L. BratkovskayaORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-773301 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2017.05.030 |
ISSN: | 0375-9474 |
Parent Title (English): | Nuclear Physics A |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2017/09/25 |
Date of first Publication: | 2017/09/25 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2023/10/09 |
Tag: | Chiral symmetry restoration; QCD phase diagram; quark-gluon plasma; relativistic heavy-ion collisions; strangeness enhancement; string fragmentation |
Volume: | 967 |
Page Number: | 4 |
First Page: | 836 |
Last Page: | 839 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 513173412 |
Institutes: | 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): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |