@article{db22d315623f47ebb2d44d269787395d,
title = "Bayesian location of the QCD critical point from a holographic perspective",
abstract = "A fundamental question in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the existence of a phase transition at large doping of quarks over antiquarks. We present the first prediction of a QCD critical point (CP) from a Bayesian analysis constrained by first principle results at zero doping. We employ the gauge/gravity duality to map QCD onto a theory of dual black holes. Predictions for the CP location in different realizations of the model overlap at one sigma. Even if many prior samples do not include a CP, one is found in nearly 100% of posterior samples, indicating a strong preference for a CP.",
author = "Mauricio Hippert and Joaquin Grefa and Manning, {T. Andrew} and Jorge Noronha and Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler and Vazquez, {Israel Portillo} and Claudia Ratti and Romulo Rougemont and Michael Trujillo",
note = "We thank R. Haas for discussions on computational aspects of this work. We also thank D. Phillips for his insight on how to treat unknown error correlations and theory error, N. Yunes for advice on Bayesian analyses, and D. Mroczek and G. Nijs for fruitful discussions. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. PHY-2208724, No. PHY-1748958, and No. PHY-2116686 and in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Awards No. DE-SC0022023 and No. DE-SC0023861 and by the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) under Award No. 80NSSC24K0767. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) within the framework of the MUSES collaboration, under Grant No. OAC-2103680. The authors also acknowledge support from the Illinois Campus Cluster, a computing resource that is operated by the Illinois Campus Cluster Program (ICCP) in conjunction with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and which is supported by funds from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. R.\u2009R. acknowledges financial support by National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) under Grant No. 407162/2023-2.",
year = "2024",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.110.094006",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "110",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "9",
}