Exploring the partonic phase at finite chemical potential within an extended off-shell transport approach

Abstract

We extend the Parton-Hadron-String Dynamics (PHSD) transport approach in the partonic sector by explicitly calculating the total and differential partonic scattering cross sections as a function of temperature $T$ and baryon chemical potential ${\mu }_B$ on the basis of the effective propagators and couplings from the Dynamical QuasiParticle Model (DQPM) that is matched to reproduce the equation of state of the partonic system above the deconfinement temperature $T_c$ from lattice QCD. The ratio of shear viscosity $\eta$ over entropy density $s$, i.e. $\eta /s$, is evaluated using the collisional widths and compared to lQCD calculations for ${\mu }_B$ = 0 as well. We find only a very modest change of $\eta /s$ with the baryon chemical ${\mu }_B$. This also holds for a variety of hadronic observables from central A+A and C+Au collisions in the energy range 5 GeV $\le \sqrt{s_{NN}}\le$ 200 GeV when implementing the differential cross sections into the PHSD approach. We only observe small differences in the strangeness and antibaryon sector with practically no sensitivity of rapidity and $p_T$ distributions to the ${\mu }_B$ dependence of the partonic cross sections. Since we find only small traces of a ${\mu }_B$-dependence in heavy-ion observables - although the effective partonic masses and widths as well as their partonic cross sections clearly depend on ${\mu }_B$ - this implies that one needs a sizable partonic density and large space-time QGP volume to explore the dynamics in the partonic phase. These conditions are only fulfilled at high bombarding energies where ${\mu }_B$ is, however, rather low. On the other hand, when decreasing the bombarding energy and thus increasing ${\mu }_B$, the hadronic phase becomes dominant and accordingly, it will be difficult to extract signals from the partonic dynamics based on "bulk" observables.

31 pages, 30 figures

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