2016/08/15 by Wei-jie Fu, Wei‐jie Fu, Jan M. Pawlowski +2 · 2 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Baryon #Baryon number #Collision #Energy density #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Kurtosis #Lattice (music) #Lattice QCD #Mathematics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quark #Quark–gluon plasma #Spectral density #Statistical physics #Theoretical physics #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.94.116020
published as Phys. Rev. D 94, 116020 (2016) · 14 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables
arxiv created 2016/08/15 · openalex publication_date 2016/12/28 · arxiv updated 2017/01/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We investigate baryon number fluctuations for finite temperature and density in two-flavor QCD. This is done within a QCD-improved low-energy effective theory in an extension of the approach put forward by Fu and Pawlowski [Phys. Rev. D 92, 116006 (2015) and Phys. Rev. D 93, 091501 (2016)]. In the present work, we aim to improve the predictive power of this approach for large temperatures and, in partitular, large densities, that is, for small collision energies. This is achieved by taking into account the full frequency dependence of the quark dispersion. This ensures the necessary Silver Blaze property of finite density QCD for the first time, which so far was only implemented approximately. Moreover, we show that Polyakov-loop fluctuations have a sizeable impact at large temperatures and density. The results for the kurtosis of baryon number fluctuations are compared to previous effective theory results, lattice results, and recent experimental data from STAR.