Speaker
Description
As various ongoing and upcoming experiments explore the QCD critical point,
it is important to theoretically study various factors that become significant
in such searches. In particular, the size of the system created in such
experiments is not too large compared to the strong interaction scale. It
is important to explore the effect of the finite system size on the
phase diagram.
Using an effective model of QCD we will explore the effect of the finite
system size on the phase diagram, in particular on the critical
point and the associated first order line, and the baryon number
susceptibilities. Our study uses the MIT boundary
condition: the importance of an appropriate boundary condition in finite
volume studies will be discussed. The kinetics at the first order line will
also be briefly discussed.
| Field of contribution | Theory |
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