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Published on: December 14, 2017
Indications for a critical end point in the phase diagram for hot and dense nuclear matter
1Departments of Chemistry and Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA.
Abstract:
Excitation functions for the Gaussian emission source radii difference (R_{out}^{2}-R_{side}^{2}) obtained from two-pion interferometry measurements in Au+Au (sqrt[s_{NN}]=7.7-200 GeV) and Pb+Pb (sqrt[s_{NN}]=2.76 TeV) collisions are studied for a broad range of collision centralities. The observed nonmonotonic excitation functions validate the finite-size scaling patterns expected for the deconfinement phase transition and the critical end point (CEP), in the temperature versus baryon chemical potential (T,μ_{B}) plane of the nuclear matter phase diagram. A finite-size scaling (FSS) analysis of these data suggests a second order phase transition with the estimates T^{cep}∼165 MeV and μ_{B}^{cep}∼95 MeV for the location of the critical end point. The critical exponents (ν≈0.66 and γ≈1.2) extracted via the same FSS analysis place this CEP in the 3D Ising model universality class.
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