Speaker
Bedangadas Mohanty
(National Institute of Science Education and Research (IN))
Description
The beam-energy scan at RHIC aims to discover whether a critical point exists in the phase diagram of QCD. We will report on the most comprehensive measurement of single-particle spectra for a multitude of hadrons from the first run, taken with the STAR experiment. From these measurements we will infer the kinetic and chemical freeze-out temperatures and the baryon chemical potential as functions of beam energy and centrality. The freeze-out dynamics of the system formed in heavy-ion collisions will be discussed in detail. The results provide an opportunity for the beam-energy scan program at RHIC to enlarge the (T,μB) region of the phase diagram to search for the QCD critical point.
Author
Bedangadas Mohanty
(National Institute of Science Education and Research (IN))
