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Chiral phase transition and kaon-to-pion ratios in the entanglement SU(3) PNJL model

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2020
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Friesen, A. V.
Kalinovsky, Y. L.
Radzhabov, A.
Blaschke, D.
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Институт лазерных и плазменных технологий
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© 2020, The Author(s).Within the three-flavor PNJL and EPNJL chiral quark models we have obtained pseudoscalar meson properties in quark matter at finite temperature T and baryochemical potential μB. We compare the meson pole (Breit-Wigner) approximation with the Beth-Uhlenbeck (BU) approach that takes into account the continuum of quark-antiquark scattering states when determining the partial densities of pions and kaons. We evaluate the kaon-to-pion ratios along the (pseudo-)critical line in the T − μB plane as a proxy for the chemical freezeout line, whereby the variable x = T∕μB is introduced that corresponds to the conserved entropy per baryon as initial condition for the heavy-ion collision experiments. We present a comparison with the experimental pattern of kaon-to-pion ratios within the BU approach and using x-dependent pion and strange quark potentials. A sharp “horn” effect in the energy dependence K+∕π+ ratio is explained by the enhanced pion production at energies above √sNN=8 GeV, when the system enters the regime of meson dominance. This effect is in line with the enhancement of low-momentum pion spectra that is discussed as a precursor of the pion Bose condensation and entails the occurrence of a nonequilibrium pion chemical potential of the order of the pion mass. We elucidate that the horn effect is not related to the existence of a critical endpoint in the QCD phase diagram.
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Chiral phase transition and kaon-to-pion ratios in the entanglement SU(3) PNJL model / Friesen, A.V. [et al.] // European Physical Journal: Special Topics. - 2020. - 229. - № 22-23. - P. 3517-3536. - 10.1140/epjst/e2020-000218-1
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