Signature of QCD critical point: Anomalous transverse velocity dependence of antiproton-proton ratio

Abstract

We formulate the QCD critical point focusing effect on transverse velocity (${\beta }_t$) dependence of antiproton to proton ($\bar{p}/p$) ratio, which was recently proposed by Asakawa {\it et al.} as an experimental signature of QCD critical point in high energy heavy ion collisions (HICs). For quantitative analysis, Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) transport model and THERMal heavy-IoN generATOR (THERMINATOR) are applied to calculate the corresponding ${\beta }_t$ dependence of $\bar{p}/p$ ratio for three gedanken focused isentropic trajectories with different focusing degree on QCD phase diagram. Finally, we obtained an observable anomaly in ${\beta }_t$ dependence of $\bar{p}/p$ ratio, which can be employed as a signature of QCD critical point.

arXiv comment5 pages, 6 figures; To be published on Physics Letters B

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