Strangeness at High Temperatures: From Hadrons to Quarks

Bazavov, A. and Ding, H. -T. and Hegde, P. and Kaczmarek, O. and Karsch, F. and Laermann, E. and Maezawa, Y. and Mukherjee, Swagato and Ohno, H. and Petreczky, P. and Schmidt, C. and Sharma, S. and Soeldner, W. and Wagner, M. (2013) Strangeness at High Temperatures: From Hadrons to Quarks. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 111 (8): 082301. ISSN 0031-9007,

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Abstract

Appropriate combinations of up to fourth order cumulants of net strangeness fluctuations and their correlations with net baryon number and electric charge fluctuations, obtained from lattice QCD calculations, have been used to probe the strangeness carrying degrees of freedom at high temperatures. For temperatures up to the chiral crossover, separate contributions of strange mesons and baryons can be well described by an uncorrelated gas of hadrons. Such a description breaks down in the chiral crossover region, suggesting that the deconfinement of strangeness takes place at the chiral crossover. On the other hand, the strangeness carrying degrees of freedom inside the quark gluon plasma can be described by a weakly interacting gas of quarks only for temperatures larger than twice the chiral crossover temperature. In the intermediate temperature window, these observables show considerably richer structures, indicative of the strongly interacting nature of the quark gluon plasma.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: GLUON PLASMA; PB COLLISIONS; QCD; TRANSITION; LHC;
Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
Divisions: Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 03 Apr 2020 05:38
Last Modified: 03 Apr 2020 05:38
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/16218

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