Effects of a phase transition on two-pion interferometry in heavy-ion collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.4-7.7$ GeV

Abstract

Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) correlations for charged pions in central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.4-7.7\text{GeV}$ (corresponding to beam kinetic energies in the fixed target frame from $E_{\mathrm{lab}}=1.23\text{to}30\text{GeV/nucleon}$) are calculated using the UrQMD model with different equations of state. The effects of a phase transition at high baryon densities are clearly observed in the HBT parameters that are explored. It is found that the available data on the HBT radii, $R_O/R_S$ and $R_O^2-R_S^2$, in the investigated energy region favors a relatively stiff equation of state at low beam energies which then turns into a soft equation of state at high collision energies consistent with astrophysical constraints on the high density equation of state of QCD. The specific effects of two different phase transition scenarios on the $R_O/R_S$ and $R_O^2-R_S^2$ are investigated. It is found that a phase transition with a significant softening of the equation of state below 4 times nuclear saturation density can be excluded using HBT data. Our results highlight that the pion's $R_O/R_S$ and $R_O^2-R_S^2$ are sensitive to the stiffness of the equation of state, and can be used to constrain and understand the QCD equation of state in the high baryon density region.

9 pages, 6 figures

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