Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2009-08-19
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
10 pages, 4 figures. Typos are corrected. A reference is updated
Scientific paper
Motivated by the fact that QCD critical point (CP) belongs to the same universality class as the liquid-gas transition, the dynamical density fluctuations around the CP is analyzed using relativistic fluid dynamics for a viscous fluid. It is shown that relativistic effects on the dynamical structure factor of the density fluctuation appears only in the width of the sound and thermal modes through a modification of the transport/kinetic coefficients. It is found that the mechanical density fluctuation which is enhanced by the relativistic effects are attenuated, whereas the entropy fluctuation in turn becomes more prominent around the QCD CP. This attenuation of the density fluctuation around the QCD CP may imply that if the suppression or even total disappearance of Mach cone is observed as the incident energy of the relativistic heavy-ion collisionsis lowered, it can be a signal of the existence of the QCD critical point.
Kunihiro Teiji
Minami Yuki
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