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Nuclear Physics Seminars at BNL

"Exploring the Phase Diagram with Scaling Functions: Epic Voyage or Just Another Bad Trip"

by Roy Lacey (SBU)

US/Eastern
Small seminar room
Description
A major goal of the ongoing experimental programs at RHIC is to chart the QCD phase diagram. Pinpointing the location of the first order phase boundary which terminates at a critical end point (CEP), in the temperature versus baryon chemical potential (T,µB) plane of this phase diagram, is key to this mapping. Finite-Size-Finite-Time succeptibility scaling functions can give crucial insight on these essential landmarks of the phase diagram. I will discuss recent attempts to extract and use such scaling functions to pin down the location of the CEP, as well as the associated critical exponents required to identify its universality class.