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Longitudinal dynamics of multiple conserved charges (2021)
Fotakis, Jan A.; Greif, Moritz; Niemi, Harri; Denicol, Gabriel S.; Greiner, Carsten (2021). Longitudinal dynamics of multiple conserved charges. Nuclear Physics A, 1005, 121899. DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2020.121899
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All authors or editors: Fotakis, Jan A.; Greif, Moritz; Niemi, Harri; Denicol, Gabriel S.; Greiner, Carsten
Journal or series: Nuclear Physics A
ISSN: 0375-9474
eISSN: 1873-1554
Publication year: 2021
Volume: 1005
Article number: 121899
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Publication country: Netherlands
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2020.121899
Open Access: Publication channel is not openly available
Additional information: Part of special issue:
The 28th International Conference on Ultra-relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions: Quark Matter 2019
Edited by Feng Liu, Enke Wang, Xin-Nian Wang, Nu Xu, Ben-Wei Zhang
Abstract
It is the goal of the RHIC BES program and the future FAIR and NICA facilities to produce compressed baryonic matter. In experiments such as these, strong gradients in baryon density are expected, and therefore the diffusion of baryon number could play a major role in the description of the fireball. The constituents of the produced matter carry a multitude of conserved charges, namely the baryon number, strangeness and electric charge, so that the diffusion currents of conserved charge couple with each other. Therefore, baryon density gradients in the above-mentioned high-density collision experiments will generate equalizing currents in all conserved charges. In common fluid dynamic studies of the evolution of the fireball, this coupling of currents was not accounted for. For the first time, we provide a fluid dynamical approach that includes the complete diffusion coefficient matrix, which describes the evolution of a dense system with multiple conserved charges. A novel phenomenon arises from the coupled diffusion currents: the generation of positive and negative net-strangeness domains from originally net-strangeness neutral matter. We show how these domains are generated dynamically and argue that observing the rapidity dependence of net-strangeness can give an experimental access to diffusion in future.
Keywords: particle physics; nuclear physics
Free keywords: diffusion; multiple conserved charges; heavy-ion collisions; fluid dynamics
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