Searching for the QCD critical point via the rapidity dependence of cumulants

Brewer, Jasmine; Mukherjee, Swagato; Rajagopal, Krishna; Yin, Yi

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.98.061901

Title: Searching for the QCD critical point via the rapidity dependence of cumulants

Journal Article · Thu Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Physical Review. C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.98.061901· OSTI ID:1485740

Brewer, Jasmine; Mukherjee, Swagato; Rajagopal, Krishna; Yin, Yi

The search for a possible critical point in the QCD phase diagram is ongoing in heavy-ion collision experiments at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) which scan the phase diagram by scanning the beam energy; a coming upgrade will increase the luminosity and extend the rapidity acceptance of the solenoidal tracker at RHIC (STAR) detector. In fireballs produced in RHIC collisions, the baryon density depends on rapidity. By employing Ising universality together with a phenomenologically motivated freeze-out prescription, we show that the resulting rapidity dependence of cumulant observables sensitive to critical fluctuations is distinctive. The dependence of the kurtosis (of the event-by-event distribution of the number of protons) on rapidity near midrapidity will change qualitatively if a critical point is passed in the scan. Hence, measuring the rapidity dependence of cumulant observables can enhance the prospect of discovering a critical point, in particular if it lies between two energies in the beam energy scan.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0011090; SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1485740

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1489356; OSTI ID: 1635236

Report Number(s):: BNL-210834-2018-JAAM; PRVCAN; 061901

Journal Information:: Physical Review. C, Journal Name: Physical Review. C Vol. 98 Journal Issue: 6; ISSN 2469-9985

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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