Hydrodynamical evolution near the QCD critical end point

Details Hydrodynamical evolution near the QCD critical end point Hydrodynamical evolution near the QCD critical end point

2004-10-18

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0410078v2

Phys.Rev. C71 (2005) 044904

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

13 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review C

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.71.044904

Hydrodynamical calculations have been successful in describing global observables in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions, which aim to observe the production of the quark-gluon plasma. On the other hand, recently, a lot of evidence that there exists a critical end point (CEP) in the QCD phase diagram has been accumulating. Nevertheless, so far, no equation of state with the CEP has been employed in hydrodynamical calculations. In this paper, we construct the equation of state with the CEP on the basis of the universality hypothesis and show that the CEP acts as an attractor of isentropic trajectories. We also consider the time evolution in the case with the CEP and discuss how the CEP affects the final state observables, such as the correlation length, fluctuation, chemical freezeout, kinetic freezeout, and so on. Finally, we argue that the anomalously low kinetic freezeout temperature at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider suggests the possibility of the existence of the CEP.

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