Finite-size behavior near the critical point of QCD phase-transition

2010/02/22 by Lizhu, Chen, Chen, Yunyun, Yuanfang, Wu
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1002.4139

Abstract

It is pointed out that finite-size effect is not negligible in locating critical point of QCD phase transition at current relativistic heavy ion collisions. Finite-size behavior near critical point, in particular, finite-size scaling and fixed-point behavior of the final observables can be served as a quantitative identification of critical point and the nearby boundary of the QCD phase transition. The validity of the method at finite detector acceptances at RHIC is discussed.

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