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Title: Off-diagonal correlators of conserved charges from lattice QCD and how to relate them to experiment

Abstract

Like fluctuations, non-diagonal correlators of conserved charges provide a tool for the study of chemical freeze-out in heavy ion collisions. They can be calculated in thermal equilibrium using lattice simulations, and be connected to moments of event-by-event net-particle multiplicity distributions. We calculate them from continuum extrapolated lattice simulations at µB = 0, and present a finite-µB extrapolation, comparing two different methods. In order to relate the grand canonical observables to the experimentally available net-particle fluctuations and correlations, we perform a Hadron Resonance Gas (HRG) model analysis, which allows us to completely break down the contributions from different hadrons. We then construct suitable hadronic proxies for fluctuations ratios, and study their behavior at finite chemical potentials. We also study the effect of introducing acceptance cuts, and argue that the small dependence of certain ratios on the latter allows for a direct comparison with lattice QCD results, provided that the same cuts are applied to all hadronic species. Finally, we perform a comparison for the constructed quantities for experimentally available measurements from the STAR Collaboration. Thus, we estimate the chemical freeze-out temperature to 165 MeV using a strangeness-related proxy. This is a rather high temperature for the use of the Hadron Resonancemore » Gas, thus, further lattice studies are necessary to provide first principle results at intermediate µB.« less

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Univ. of Houston, TX (United States); Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States); Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
German Research Foundation (DFG); Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH); Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Ministry of Innovation and Technology; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
OSTI Identifier:
1598734
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1800443; OSTI ID: 1836575
Grant/Contract Number:  
de-sc0019175; FG02-07ER41521; SC0019175; SFB/TR55; KKP126769; K113034; 05P18PXFCA; PHY-1654219; SC0020633
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Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 101 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; Heavy-Ion collisions, chemical freeze-out

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Bellwied, R., Borsányi, S., Fodor, Z., Guenther, J. N., Noronha-Hostler, J., Parotto, P., Pásztor, A., Ratti, C., and Stafford, J. M. Off-diagonal correlators of conserved charges from lattice QCD and how to relate them to experiment. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.101.034506.
Bellwied, R., Borsányi, S., Fodor, Z., Guenther, J. N., Noronha-Hostler, J., Parotto, P., Pásztor, A., Ratti, C., & Stafford, J. M. Off-diagonal correlators of conserved charges from lattice QCD and how to relate them to experiment. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.034506
Bellwied, R., Borsányi, S., Fodor, Z., Guenther, J. N., Noronha-Hostler, J., Parotto, P., Pásztor, A., Ratti, C., and Stafford, J. M. Mon . "Off-diagonal correlators of conserved charges from lattice QCD and how to relate them to experiment". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.034506.
@article{osti_1598734,
title = {Off-diagonal correlators of conserved charges from lattice QCD and how to relate them to experiment},
author = {Bellwied, R. and Borsányi, S. and Fodor, Z. and Guenther, J. N. and Noronha-Hostler, J. and Parotto, P. and Pásztor, A. and Ratti, C. and Stafford, J. M.},
abstractNote = {Like fluctuations, non-diagonal correlators of conserved charges provide a tool for the study of chemical freeze-out in heavy ion collisions. They can be calculated in thermal equilibrium using lattice simulations, and be connected to moments of event-by-event net-particle multiplicity distributions. We calculate them from continuum extrapolated lattice simulations at µB = 0, and present a finite-µB extrapolation, comparing two different methods. In order to relate the grand canonical observables to the experimentally available net-particle fluctuations and correlations, we perform a Hadron Resonance Gas (HRG) model analysis, which allows us to completely break down the contributions from different hadrons. We then construct suitable hadronic proxies for fluctuations ratios, and study their behavior at finite chemical potentials. We also study the effect of introducing acceptance cuts, and argue that the small dependence of certain ratios on the latter allows for a direct comparison with lattice QCD results, provided that the same cuts are applied to all hadronic species. Finally, we perform a comparison for the constructed quantities for experimentally available measurements from the STAR Collaboration. Thus, we estimate the chemical freeze-out temperature to 165 MeV using a strangeness-related proxy. This is a rather high temperature for the use of the Hadron Resonance Gas, thus, further lattice studies are necessary to provide first principle results at intermediate µB.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.101.034506},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 3,
volume = 101,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 10 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Mon Feb 10 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}

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