Relativistic Dynamics of Fluctuations Away and Near the QCD Critical Point

ORAL

Abstract

To describe dynamics of bulk and fluctuations near the QCD critical point we develop general relativistic fluctuation formalism for a fluid carrying baryon charge. Feedback of fluctuations modifies hydrodynamic coefficients including bulk viscosity and conductivity. We perform necessary UV renormalization to obtain cutoff independent deterministic equations suitable for numerical implementation. Focusing on the critical mode we show how this general formalism matches existing Hydro+ description of fluctuations near the QCD critical point and nontrivially extends it inside and outside of the critical region.

*This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, within the framework of the Beam Energy Scan Theory (BEST) Topical Collaboration and grant Nos. DE-FG0201ER41195 and DE-SC0018209.

Authors

  • Xin An

    • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Gokce Basar

    • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Mikhail Stephanov

    • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Ho-Ung Yee

    • University of Illinois at Chicago