Beam Energy Scan of Specific Heat Through Temperature Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions
Basu, S., Nandi, B. K., Chatterjee, S., Chatterjee, R., & Nayak, T. (2016). Beam Energy Scan of Specific Heat Through Temperature Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions. In D. Alvarez-Castillo, D. Blaschke, V. Kekelidze, V. Matveev, & A. Sorin (Eds.), SQM 2015 : Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 668 (012043). Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/668/1/012043
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Temperature fluctuations may have two distinct origins, first, quantum fluctuations
that are initial state fluctuations, and second, thermodynamical fluctuations. We discuss a
method of extracting the thermodynamic temperature from the mean transverse momentum
of pions, by using controllable parameters such as centrality of the system, and range of the
transverse momenta. Event-by-event fluctuations in global temperature over a large phase space
provide the specific heat of the system. We present Beam Energy Scan of specific heat from
data, AMPT and HRG model prediction. Experimental results from NA49, STAR, PHENIX,
PHOBOS and ALICE are combined to obtain the specific heat as a function of beam energy.
These results are compared to calculations from AMPT event generator, HRG model and lattice
calculations, respectively.