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Quantifying the uncertainty on the location of the holographic critical point

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Abstract

In Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), we study the behavior of strongly interacting matter made up of quarks and gluons. The transition between the confined and low-energy phase called hadron gas and the deconfined and hot quark gluon plasma phase is a smooth crossover at vanishing density. However, it has been conjectured the crossover must evolve into a line of first order phase transition with a critical end point. By using an Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD) model, fixed to reproduce the Lattice-QCD equation of state at vanishing chemical potential, we predict the location of a critical end point in the phase diagram. Two free functions in the EMD model are fixed to reproduce the lattice equation of state, a scalar dilation potential V(φ), and another corresponding to the coupling between the Maxwell and dilation fields, f(φ). By modifying these free functions, we study a possible change in the predicted location of the critical point in the phase diagram.

Publication: Grefa, J., Noronha, J., Noronha-Hostler, J., Portillo, I., Ratti, C., Rougemont, R. 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.034002

Presenters

  • Michael Trujillo

    University of Houston

Authors

  • Michael Trujillo

    University of Houston

  • Joaquin J Grefa

    University of Houston

  • Claudia Ratti

    University of Houston

  • Israel Portillo Vazquez

    University of Houston

  • Jorge Noronha

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Mauricio T Hippert

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Romulo Rougemont

    Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro