Deconfinement of strangeness and freeze-out from charge fluctuations

Mathias Wagner; Swagato Mukherjee

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Deconfinement of strangeness and freeze-out from charge fluctuations

Swagato Mukherjee, Mathias Wagner

Nuclear Theory · Submitted 23 Jul 2013

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The authors' main claim We use Lattice QCD calculations of fluctuations and correlations of various conserved charges to show that the deconfinement of strangeness takes place in the chiral crossover region of QCD; however, inside the quark-gluon plasma strange quarks remain strongly interacting at least up to temperatures twice the QCD crossover temperature.

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We use Lattice QCD calculations of fluctuations and correlations of various conserved charges to show that the deconfinement of strangeness takes place in the chiral crossover region of QCD; however, inside the quark-gluon plasma strange quarks remain strongly interacting at least up to temperatures twice the QCD crossover temperature. Further, we discuss how the freeze-out parameters of heavy-ion collisions can be determined in a model-independent way through direct comparisons between experimentally measured higher order cumulants of conserved charges and corresponding Lattice QCD calculations. Utilizing the preliminary data from the STAR and PHENIX experiments we illustrate this method. Although, the Lattice QCD based determinations of the freeze-out parameters utilizing data sets of different experiments and different observables are currently not consistent with each other, it is tantalizing to see that all the observed freeze-out parameters lie very close to the chiral/deconfinement crossover region of QCD.

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s2	Utilizing the preliminary data from the STAR and PHENIX experiments we illustrate this method.	method 0.65	0.77	0.04	asserted 0.99
s3	Although, the Lattice QCD based determinations of the freeze-out parameters utilizing data sets of different experiments and different observables are currently not consistent with each other, it is tantalizing to see that all the observed freeze-out parameters lie very close to the chiral/deconfinement crossover region of QCD.	interpretation 0.57	0.60	0.21	asserted 0.68

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We use Lattice QCD calculations of fluctuations and correlations of various conserved charges to show that the deconfinement of strangeness takes place in the chiral crossover region of QCD; however, inside the quark-gluon plasma strange quarks remain strongly interacting at least up to temperatures twice the QCD crossover temperature. Further, we discuss how the freeze-out parameters of heavy-ion collisions can be determined in a model-independent way through direct comparisons between experimentally measured higher order cumulants of conserved charges and corresponding Lattice QCD calculations. Utilizing the preliminary data from the STAR and PHENIX experiments we illustrate this method. Although, the Lattice QCD based determinations of the freeze-out parameters utilizing data sets of different experiments and different observables are currently not consistent with each other, it is tantalizing to see that all the observed freeze-out parameters lie very close to the chiral/deconfinement crossover region of QCD.

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Such a description breaks down in the chiral crossover region, suggesting that the deconfinement of strangeness takes place at the chiral crossover.

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For simplicity, we have set the electric charge chemical potential $μ̂_Q=0.$ These dimensionless fluctuations and correlations of conserved charges (net-baryon number $B$, net-strangeness $S$) are formally equivalent to the Taylor expansion coefficients of the pressure with the respective chemical potentials [ref] : [equation] where $μ̂_B=μ_B/T$ and $μ̂_S=μ_S/T$ are the dimensionless baryon and strangeness chemical potentials, $χ_0n^BS≡χ_n^S$ and $χ_m0^BS≡χ_m^B$.

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LQCD results [ref] for these ratios, scaled by the proper powers of the fractional baryonic and electric charges, are shown in fig:BS_QS.

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