Volume 347 - Corfu Summer Institute 2018 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity" (CORFU2018) - Session: The Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement Conference
QCD matter with a crossover and a first-order phase transition
C. Plumberg,* T. Welle, J. Kapusta
*corresponding author
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Published on: 2019 September 19
Abstract
We present a phenomenological parametrization of the phase diagram of QCD as a function of temperature $T$ and baryochemical potential $\mu$. The parametrization is constructed by introducing a switching function which controls the nature of the transition between the Hadron-Resonance Gas (HRG) and Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) phases of nuclear matter, such that the equation of state (EOS) possesses a rapid crossover at large $T$ and small $\mu$, a critical point placed anywhere along the phase transition line, and a first-order transition at small $T$ and large $\mu$. This EOS offers a convenient phenomenological tool for assessing the possible effects of the conjectured QCD critical point on heavy-ion observables.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.347.0157
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