Review of Critical Point Searches and Beam-Energy Studies†
Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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Presented at Hot Quarks 2018 - Workshop for Young Scientists on the Physics of Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Texel, The Netherlands, 7–14 September 2018.
Proceedings 2019, 10(1), 8; https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019010008
Published: 10 April 2019
(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Hot Quarks—Workshop for Young Scientists on the Physics of Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions)
I give an introductory overview of the search for the critical point in the phase diagram of QCD in the context of heavy-ion collisions from a theoretical perspective. The focus is on static and dynamic critical physics and the corresponding properties of particle number fluctuations as relevant examples of promising observables for signatures of a critical point in beam-energy scan experiments.
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Rennecke, F. Review of Critical Point Searches and Beam-Energy Studies. Proceedings 2019, 10, 8.
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