Collapse of flow: probing the order of the phase transition
We discuss the present collective flow signals for the phase transition to the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and the collective flow as a barometer for the equation of state (EoS). We emphasize the importance of the flow excitation function from 1 to 50A GeV: here the hydrodynamicmodel has predicted the collapse of the v1-flow at ~ 10A GeV and of the v2-flow at ~ 40A GeV. In the latter case, this has recently been observed by the NA49 collaboration. Since hadronic rescattering models predict much larger flow than observed at this energy, we interpret this observation as potential evidence for a first order phase transition at high baryon density pB.
| Author: | Horst Stöcker |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-52050 |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 02.12.2010 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2007 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| Source: | POS; http://pos.sissa.it/archive/conferences/047/025/CPOD07_025.pdf ; The 4th ed. of the internat. workshop - The Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement - July 9-13 2007, Ges. für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany |
| HeBIS PPN: | 229196306 |
| Institutes: | Physik |
| Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 530 Physik |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Note: | Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence. http://pos.sissa.it/ |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Keine kommerzielle Nutzung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen |
