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Locating the QCD critical point with finite-size scaling of proton cumulants
Agnieszka Sorensen, Paul Sorensen
We perform a finite-size scaling analysis of net-proton number cumulants in Au+Au collisions at center-of-mass energies between and to sea…
Structure in the speed of sound: from neutron stars to heavy-ion collisions
Nanxi Yao, Agnieszka Sorensen, Veronica Dexheimer +1
From the observation of both heavy neutron stars and light ones with small radii, one anticipates a steep rise in the speed of sound of nuclear matter as a function of baryon densi…
Dense Nuclear Matter Equation of State from Heavy-Ion Collisions
Agnieszka Sorensen, Kshitij Agarwal, Kyle W. Brown +133
The nuclear equation of state (EOS) is at the center of numerous theoretical and experimental efforts in nuclear physics. With advances in microscopic theories for nuclear interact…
Long Range Plan: Dense matter theory for heavy-ion collisions and neutron stars
Alessandro Lovato, Travis Dore, Robert D. Pisarski +61
Since the release of the 2015 Long Range Plan in Nuclear Physics, major events have occurred that reshaped our understanding of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and nuclear matter at l…
Measuring the speed of sound using cumulants of baryon number
Agnieszka Sorensen, Dmytro Oliinychenko, Larry McLerran +1
We show that the values of the first three cumulants of the baryon number distribution can be used to calculate the isothermal speed of sound and its logarithmic derivative with re…
The high-density equation of state in heavy-ion collisions: Constraints from proton flow
Jan Steinheimer, Anton Motornenko, Agnieszka Sorensen +3
A set of different equations of state is implemented in the molecular dynamics part of a non-equilibrium transport simulation (UrQMD) of heavy-ion collisions. It is shown how diffe…
Sensitivity of Au+Au collisions to the symmetric nuclear matter equation of state at 2 -- 5 nuclear saturation densities
Dmytro Oliinychenko, Agnieszka Sorensen, Volker Koch +1
We demonstrate that proton and pion flow measurements in heavy-ion collisions at incident energies ranging from 1 to 20 GeV per nucleon in the fixed target frame can be used for an…
Transport Model Comparison Studies of Intermediate-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions
Hermann Wolter, Maria Colonna, Dan Cozma +49
Transport models are the main method to obtain physics information from low to relativistic-energy heavy-ion collisions. The Transport Model Evaluation Project (TMEP) has been purs…
Cumulants: It's More Than You Think
Agnieszka Sorensen, Dmytro Oliinychenko, Volker Koch +1
Cumulants of baryon number are given considerable attention in analyses of heavy-ion collision experiments as possible signatures of the QCD critical point. In this work, we show t…
Density Functional Equation of State and Its Application to the Phenomenology of Heavy-Ion Collisions
Agnieszka Sorensen
We present a mean-field model of the dense nuclear matter equation of state designed for use in computationally demanding hadronic transport simulations. Our approach, based on the…
The BEST framework for the search for the QCD critical point and the chiral magnetic effect
Xin An, Marcus Bluhm, Lipei Du +40
The Beam Energy Scan Theory (BEST) Collaboration was formed with the goal of providing a theoretical framework for analyzing data from the Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the rel…
Comparison of Heavy-Ion Transport Simulations: Mean-field Dynamics in a Box
Maria Colonna, Ying-Xun Zhang, Yong-Jia Wang +26
Within the transport model evaluation project (TMEP) of simulations for heavy-ion collisions, the mean-field response is examined here. Specifically, zero-sound propagation is cons…
Speed of sound and baryon cumulants in heavy-ion collisions
Agnieszka Sorensen, Dmytro Oliinychenko, Volker Koch +1
We present a method that may allow an estimate of the value of the speed of sound as well as its logarithmic derivative with respect to the baryon number density in matter created…
Phase transitions and critical behavior in hadronic transport with a relativistic density functional equation of state
Agnieszka Sorensen, Volker Koch
We develop a flexible, relativistically covariant parameterization of dense nuclear matter equation of state suited for inclusion in computationally demanding hadronic transport si…