Diffusion effects on conserved charge fluctuations

• Grant number: 24/08903-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate (Direct)
• Start date: September 13, 2024
• End date: May 12, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Nuclear Physics
• Principal Investigator: Frédérique Marie Brigitte Sylvie Grassi
• Grantee: Kevin Possendoro Pala
• Supervisor: Jacquelyn Michelle Noronha-Hostler
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 20/15893-4 - Exploring the phase diagram of quark-gluon plasma: diffusion effect over conserved charge fluctuation in beam energy scan, BP.DD

Abstract

In 2005 the discovery of quark-gluon plasma formation in heavy-ion collisions wasannounced by the four experiments at the RHIC accelerator. However, our understandingof the QCD phase diagram remains incomplete, particularly concerning the existence,nature, and location of the hypothesized first-order phase transition and critical point. Thisproject aims to investigate charge fluctuations, one of the most promising indicators ofthe critical point, using hydrodynamic simulations that integrate the evolution of baryonic,electric, and strangeness charges incorporating effects of charge diffusion.