Speaker
Description
Heavy-ion collisions covering a wide range of collision energies provide a vast amount of observables characterizing the properties of strongly-interacting matter. In particular collisions towards the high baryon-density regime of the QCD phase diagram have become of interest to study the phase transition between hadronic and partonic matter and to locate a possible critical end point. To correctly interpret the obtained experimental results, accurate theoretical models are essential. In this talk, a novel hybrid model is presented, which applies the SMASH transport approach for the description of hadronic matter in the initial and final state and the 3+1D vHLLE viscous hydrodynamics code for the description of the equilibrated fireball. The hydrodynamic evolution is initialized dynamically from the transport evolution and the resulting source terms are consistently taken into consideration.
As a first step, the particle production for different collision energies is compared to experimental data and the implications for electromagnetic oberservables are discussed. In addition, phase transition observables are explored for varying equations of state.
| Topic | Heavy Ion Physics |
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