Effects of equation of state on nuclear suppression and the initial entropy density of quark gluon plasma
arXiv:1110.0294 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.85.044918
Abstract
We study the effects of the equation of state on the nuclear suppression of heavy flavours in quark gluon plasma and estimate the initial entropy density of the system produced at the highest RHIC energy. For this purpose we have used the experimental data on the charged particle multiplicity and the nuclear suppression of single electron spectra originating from the semi-leptonic decays of open charm and beauty mesons. We have used inputs from lattice QCD to minimize the model dependence of the results. We obtain the value of the initial entropy density which varies from 20 to 59 /fm depending on the value of the velocity of sound that one uses for the analysis. Our investigation leads to a conservative value of the initial entropy density fm with corresponding initial temperature MeV well above the value of the transition temperature predicted by lattice QCD.
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