Overview of the QCD phase diagram: Recent progress from the lattice

JN Guenther - The European Physical Journal A, 2021 - Springer
In recent years there has been much progress on the investigation of the QCD phase
diagram with lattice QCD simulations. In this review we focus on the developments in the last …

Search for the QCD critical point in high energy nuclear collisions

A Pandav, D Mallick, B Mohanty - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
QCD critical point is a landmark region in the QCD phase diagram outlined by temperature
as a function of baryon chemical potential. To the right of this second-order phase transition …

QCD crossover at finite chemical potential from lattice simulations

S Borsanyi, Z Fodor, JN Guenther, R Kara, SD Katz… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We provide the most accurate results for the QCD transition line so far. We optimize the
definition of the crossover temperature T c, allowing for its very precise determination, and …

The BEST framework for the search for the QCD critical point and the chiral magnetic effect

X An, M Bluhm, L Du, GV Dunne, H Elfner, C Gale… - Nuclear Physics A, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Beam Energy Scan Theory (BEST) Collaboration was formed with the goal of
providing a theoretical framework for analyzing data from the Beam Energy Scan (BES) …

Higher order fluctuations and correlations of conserved charges from lattice QCD

S Borsanyi, Z Fodor, JN Guenther, SK Katz… - Journal of high energy …, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We calculate several diagonal and non-diagonal fluctuations of conserved charges
in a system of 2+ 1+ 1 quark flavors with physical masses, on a lattice with size 48 3× 12 …

[HTML][HTML] Relativistic nuclear collisions: Establishing a non-critical baseline for fluctuation measurements

P Braun-Munzinger, B Friman, K Redlich, A Rustamov… - Nuclear Physics A, 2021 - Elsevier
We study the influence of global baryon number conservation on the non-critical baseline of
net baryon cumulants in heavy-ion collisions in a given acceptance, accounting for the …

Resummed lattice QCD equation of state at finite baryon density: Strangeness neutrality and beyond

S Borsanyi, JN Guenther, R Kara, Z Fodor, P Parotto… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We calculate a resummed equation of state with lattice QCD simulations at imaginary
chemical potentials. This work presents a generalization of the scheme introduced in [Phys …

Thermal-FIST: A package for heavy-ion collisions and hadronic equation of state

V Vovchenko, H Stoecker - Computer Physics Communications, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermal-FIST 1 is a C++ package designed for convenient general-purpose physics
analysis within the family of hadron resonance gas (HRG) models. This mainly includes the …

Proton number cumulants and correlation functions in Au-Au collisions at –200 GeV from hydrodynamics

V Vovchenko, V Koch, C Shen - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
We present a dynamical description of (anti) proton number cumulants and correlation
functions in central Au-Au collisions at s NN= 7.7–200 GeV by utilizing viscous …

Second order cumulants of conserved charge fluctuations revisited: Vanishing chemical potentials

D Bollweg, J Goswami, O Kaczmarek, F Karsch… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We update lattice QCD results for second order cumulants of conserved charge fluctuations
and correlations at nonzero temperature and vanishing values of the conserved charge …