arXiv:1107.1588·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Signatures of the chiral critical endpoint of QCD in heavy-ion collisions: the role of finite-size effects
L. F. Palhares (IPhT, CEA-Saclay and Rio de Janeiro Federal Univ.)🇫🇷 · E. S. Fraga (Rio de Janeiro Federal Univ.)🇧🇷
Abstract
We briefly discuss the status of the signatures of the QCD critical endpoint in heavy-ion collisions concentrating on the role played by the finiteness of the medium created in such experiments.
Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, Acta Phys. Pol. format. Talk presented at "Excited QCD 2011" (20-25 February 2011, Les Houches, France)