Finite-size scaling as a tool in the search for the QCD critical point in heavy ion data

Details Finite-size scaling as a tool in the search for the QCD critical point in heavy ion data Finite-size scaling as a tool in the search for the QCD critical point in heavy ion data

2011-04-19

arxiv.org/abs/1104.3755v1

Phys.Rev.C84:011903,2011

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

5 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.84.011903

Given the short lifetime and the reduced volume of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formed in high-energy heavy ion collisions, a possible critical endpoint (CEP) will be blurred in a region and the effects from criticality severely smoothened. Nevertheless, the non-monotonic behavior of correlation functions near criticality for systems of different sizes, given by different centralities in heavy ion collisions, must obey finite-size scaling. We apply the predicting power of scaling plots to the search for the CEP of strong interactions in heavy ion collisions using data from RHIC and SPS. The results of our data analysis exclude a critical point below chemical potentials $\mu\sim 450 $MeV. Extrapolating the analysis, we speculate that criticality could appear slightly above $\mu\sim 500 $MeV. Using available data we extrapolate our scaling curves to predict the behavior of new data at lower center-of-mass energy, currently being investigated in the Beam Energy Scan program at RHIC. If it turns out that the QGP phase is no longer achievable in heavy ion experiments before the CEP is reached, FSS might be the only way to experimentally estimate its position in the phase diagram.

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