On the Observation of Phase Transitions in Collisions of Elementary Matter

Abstract

We investigate the excitation function of directed flow, which can provide a clear signature of the creation of the QGP and demonstrate that the minimum of the directed flow does not correspond to the softest point of the EoS for isentropic expansion. A novel technique measuring the compactness is introduced to determine the QGP transition in relativistic-heavy ion collisions: The QGP transition will lead to higher compression and therefore to higher compactness of the source in coordinate space. This effect can be observed by pion interferometry. We propose to measure the compactness of the source in the appropriate principal axis frame of the compactness tensor in coordinate space.

arXiv commentLaTeX, 8 pages, 6 figures, Conference proceedings to CRIS 2000, 3rd Catania Relativistic Ion Studies

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