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most citedLocating the QCD critical point through contours of constant entropy density

10 citations · 12 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

nucl-th2026

Four-dimensional QCD equation of state with a critical surface from contours of constant entropy density

Tristan Gyure, Hitansh Shah, Lorenzo Formaggio +4

We present a new lattice-QCD-based equation of state in the four-dimensional space of which features a critical surface. This is obtained by generalizing the expa…

nucl-th2026

A 4D -expanded lattice QCD equation of state with a multi-dimensional 3D-Ising-type critical contribution

Francesco Di Clemente, Prachi Garella, Johannes Jahan +5

Inferring the possible existence and location of a critical point on the QCD phase diagram through experimental observations requires equations of state that include both lattice Q…

nucl-th2026

An Extended Chiral Mean-Field Model with Medium-Modified Thermal Mesons for Hot and Dense Hadronic Matter

Micheal Kahangirwe, Rajesh Kumar, Joaquin Grefa +5

In this conference proceeding we review an extension of the Chiral Mean Field (CMF) model that consistently incorporates interacting thermal mesons with self-consistent in-medium m…

nucl-th2026

Including Thermal Mesons and Meson Resonances in the Chiral Mean-Field Equation of State

Micheal Kahangirwe, Joaquin Grefa, Mateus Reinke Pelicer +3

The Chiral Mean-Field (CMF) model describes dense matter in terms of baryons and quarks interacting through scalar and vector meson mean fields. In the mean-field approximation, th…

nucl-th2026

Strongly coupled quark matter in neutron stars and their mergers

Konstantin Maslov, Ralf Rapp, Joaquin Grefa +2

The discovery of the strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) in high-energy heavy-ion collisions has revealed remarkable properties of matter at high temperature, with transport…

nucl-th2026

Thermodynamically Consistent Merging of Multidimensional QCD Equations of State

Prachi Garella, Yumu Yang, Musa R. Khan +7

We present a thermodynamically consistent framework for merging complementary models into a multidimensional QCD equation of state. An internal mixing variable is determined by min…

nucl-th2026

QCD critical surface from constant entropy contours

Hitansh Shah, Tristan Gyure, Anabella Leon +4

We provide the first mapping of the critical surface in (2+1)-flavor QCD in the full space, anchored on lattice QCD results at vanishing chemical potentials and o…

nucl-th2026

Studying the QCD Matter produced in Heavy-Ion Collisions using the MUSES Calculation Engine

Johannes Jahan, Kevin P. Pala, Yumu Yang +42

The equation of state of hot and dense matter is essential for describing heavy-ion collisions at all collision energies. Here, we explore the capabilities of the latest version of…

hep-lat2026

Electric charge fluctuations from lattice QCD in the continuum limit

Szabolcs Borsányi, Zoltán Fodor, Jana N. Guenther +5

Electric charge fluctuations allow comparisons between theory and experiment, but are elusive on the lattice due to severe cutoff effects. We use a 4HEX action to obtain $χ…

nucl-th2026

S-wave kaon condensation in neutron-star matter within a chiral model framework with dynamical meson masses

Yuhan Wang, Rajesh Kumar, Joaquin Grefa +4

We investigate s-wave kaon condensation in dense matter and neutron stars within the updated Chiral Mean Field model with an improved meson description (mCMF), which incorporates d…

nucl-th2026

Uncertainty quantification of holographic transport and energy loss for the hot and baryon-dense QGP

Musa R. Khan, Ayrton Nascimento, Yumu Yang +5

We investigate several transport coefficients across the phase diagram of a holographic Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD) model of hot and dense QCD with flavors. Our result…

nucl-th2026

Chemical potential differentials in the QCD phase diagram from heavy-ion isobar collisions

Joaquin Grefa, Chun Yue Tsang, Rajesh Kumar +3

Temperature and baryon, charge, and strangeness chemical potentials characterize QCD matter under extreme conditions. Differences between these chemical potentials and their ratios…

nucl-th2026

Merging multidimensional equations of state of strongly interacting matter via a statistical mixture

Yumu Yang, Prachi Garella, Musa R. Khan +7

We introduce a general method to merge multidimensional equations of state (EoSs) by combining them in a two-fluid equilibrium statistical mixture in the grand canonical ensemble.…

hep-ph2026★ 1 cited

Lattice-based equation of state with a critical point from constant entropy contours and its comparison to effective QCD approaches

Hitansh Shah, Mauricio Hippert, Jorge Noronha +2

In this work, we systematically assess the performance of a new method from [H. Shah et al., Phys. Rev. C 113, L012201] for locating the QCD critical point using constant-entropy c…

nucl-th2025

First order transition region of an equation of state for QCD with a critical point

Jamie M. Karthein, Volker Koch, Claudia Ratti

In addition to signals for the critical point, evidence for a first order phase transition would indicate a nontrivial structure within the QCD phase diagram. Moreover, while not a…

hep-ph2025

Upper Bound on the Cosmic Baryon Chemical Potential from Lepton-Flavor Asymmetry

Francesco Di Clemente, Alessandro Drago, Lorenzo Formaggio +3

We study the early Universe trajectory around the QCD transition in lepton-flavor-asymmetric cases with small total lepton asymmetry (), while allowing larg…

hep-ph2025

Searching for the QCD critical point through constant entropy density contours

Hitansh Shah, Mauricio Hippert, Jorge Noronha +2

We propose a novel method to locate the QCD critical point by constructing an expansion along contours of constant entropy density. Applying two independent analysis of lattice QCD…

nucl-th2025

Probing QGP using local charge fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions

Jonathan Parra, Roman Poberezhniuk, Volker Koch +2

We revisit the D-measure of event-by-event net-electric charge fluctuations, an idea first introduced over 20 years ago as a potential signature for the presence of quark-gluon pla…

hep-ph2025

Indications for freeze-out of charge fluctuations in the quark-gluon plasma at the LHC

Jonathan Parra, Roman Poberezhniuk, Volker Koch +2

The D-measure of net-charge fluctuations quantifies the variance of net charge in strongly interacting matter. It was introduced over 20 years ago as a potential signal of quark-gl…

nucl-th2025

Interacting mesons as degrees of freedom in a chiral model

Rajesh Kumar, Joaquin Grefa, Konstantin Maslov +5

We study the equation of state of hot and dense hadronic matter using an extended Chiral Mean Field (CMF) model framework where the addition is the inclusion of interactions of the…

hep-lat2025

Lattice QCD constraints on the critical point from an improved precision equation of state

Szabolcs Borsanyi, Zoltan Fodor, Jana N. Guenther +5

In this Letter we employ lattice simulations to search for the critical point of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). We search for the onset of a first order QCD transition on the phase…

nucl-th2025★ 1 cited

Building Neutron Stars with the MUSES Calculation Engine

Mateus Reinke Pelicer, Nikolas Cruz-Camacho, Carlos Conde +25

Exploring the equation of state of dense matter is an essential part of interpreting the observable properties of neutron stars. We present here the first results for dense matter…

hep-ph2024★ 10 cited

Locating the QCD critical point through contours of constant entropy density

Hitansh Shah, Mauricio Hippert, Jorge Noronha +2

We propose a new method to investigate the existence and location of the conjectured high-temperature critical point of strongly interacting matter via contours of constant entropy…