40 research outputs found
Future Experiments in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
The measurements at RHIC have revealed a new state of matter, which needs to
be further characterized in order to better understand its implications for the
early evolution of the universe and QCD. I will show that, in the near future,
complementary key measurements can be performed at RHIC, LHC, and FAIR. I will
focus on results than can be obtained using identified particles, a probe which
has been the basis for this conference over the past three decades. The
sophisticated detectors, built and planned, for all three accelerator
facilities enable us to measure leptons, photons, muons as well as hadrons and
resonances of all flavors almost equally well, which makes these experiments
unprecedented precision tools for the comprehensive understanding of the
physics of the early universe.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings for Summary Talk at SQM 2007,
Levoca, Slovakia, June 24-29, 200
Quasiparticle Description of the QCD Plasma, Comparison with Lattice Results at Finite T and Mu
We compare our 2+1 flavor, staggered QCD lattice results with a quasiparticle
picture. We determine the pressure, the energy density, the baryon density, the
speed of sound and the thermal masses as a function of T and . For the
available thermodynamic quantities the difference is a few percent between the
results of the two approaches. We also give the phase diagram on the --T
plane and estimate the critical chemical potential at vanishing temperature.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figure