{
  "id": "1907.08179",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2019-07-18T17:39:39.000Z",
  "updated": "2019-07-18T17:39:39.000Z",
  "title": "Strangeness neutrality and the QCD phase diagram",
  "authors": [
    "Fabian Rennecke",
    "Wei-jie Fu",
    "Jan M. Pawlowski"
  ],
  "comment": "15 pages, 6 Figures; Contribution to the proceedings of the CPOD2018 conference",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "nucl-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "Since the incident nuclei in heavy-ion collisions do not carry strangeness, the global net strangeness of the detected hadrons has to vanish. We show that there is an intimate relation between strangeness neutrality and baryon-strangeness correlations. In the context of heavy-ion collisions, the former is a consequence of quark number conservation of the strong interactions while the latter are sensitive probes of the character of QCD matter. We investigate the sensitivity of baryon-strangeness correlations on the freeze-out conditions of heavy-ion collisions by studying their dependence on temperature, baryon- and strangeness chemical potential. The impact of strangeness neutrality on the QCD equation of state at finite chemical potentials will also be discussed. We model the low-energy sector of QCD by an effective Polyakov loop enhanced quark-meson model with 2+1 dynamical quark flavors and use the functional renormalization group to account for the non-perturbative quantum fluctuations of hadrons.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2019-07-18T17:39:39.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "qcd phase diagram",
      "strangeness neutrality",
      "heavy-ion collisions",
      "baryon-strangeness correlations",
      "polyakov loop enhanced quark-meson model"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 15,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}