Family of equations of state based on lattice QCD: Impact on flow in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
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2007-09-17
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We construct a family of equations of state within a quasiparticle model by relating pressure, energy density, baryon density, and susceptibilities adjusted to first-principles lattice QCD calculations. The relation between pressure and energy density from lattice QCD is surprisingly insensitive to details of the simulations. Effects from different lattice actions, quark masses, and lattice spacings used in the simulations show up mostly in the quark-hadron phase transition region, which we bridge over by a set of interpolations to a hadron resonance gas equation of state. Within our optimized quasiparticle model we then examine the equation of state along isentropic expansion trajectories at small net baryon densities, as relevant for experiments and hydrodynamic simulations at RHIC and LHC energies. We illustrate its impact on azimuthal flow anisotropies and on the transverse momentum spectra of various hadron species.
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M. Bluhm et al, "Family of equations of state based on lattice QCD: Impact on flow in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions," Physical Review C 76, no. 3 (2007), doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.76.034901