Published April 23, 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

Determination of freeze-out conditions from fluctuations in the Hadron Resonance Gas model

  • 1. Department of Physics, Torino University and INFN, Sezione di Torino, via P. Giuria 1, 10125 Torino (Italy)
  • 2. Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 (United States)
  • 4. Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0305 (United States)

Description

Fluctuations of conserved charges measured in Heavy-Ion Collisions (HICs) received increasing attention in recent years, because they are good candidates to explore the phase diagram of QCD matter. During the last year, net-electric charge and net-proton moments of multiplicities measured at RHIC have been published by the STAR collaboration, for a range of collision energies which spans a region of the phase diagram at finite chemical potential. Here we present a new freeze-out curve obtained using the Hadron Resonance Gas (HRG) model approach to fit these experimental data. The HRG model is modified in order to have a realistic description of the HICs: kinematic cuts, resonance feed-down and resonance regeneration are taken into account. Our result is in agreement with preliminary studies by the ALICE collaboration, and is supported by a recent lattice analysis of the same quantities. (paper)

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/599/1/012021

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online)
Journal Volume
599
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
[5 p.]
ISSN
1742-6596

Conference

Title
FAIR Next Generation ScientistS 2014
Acronym
FAIRNESS 2014
Dates
22-27 Sep 2014
Place
Vietri sul Mare (Italy)