@article{0366f4c4062e4f46b19ea3df41e91a1b,
title = "Strangeness-neutral equation of state for QCD with a critical point",
abstract = "We present a strangeness-neutral equation of state for QCD that exhibits critical behavior and matches lattice QCD results for the Taylor-expanded thermodynamic variables up to fourth order in μB/ T. It is compatible with the SMASH hadronic transport approach and has a range of temperatures and baryonic chemical potentials relevant for phase II of the Beam Energy Scan at RHIC. We provide an updated version of the software BES-EoS, which produces an equation of state for QCD that includes a critical point in the 3D Ising model universality class. This new version also includes isentropic trajectories and the critical contribution to the correlation length. Since heavy-ion collisions have zero global net-strangeness density and a fixed ratio of electric charge to baryon number, the BES-EoS is more suitable to describe this system. Comparison with the previous version of the EoS is thoroughly discussed.",
author = "Karthein, {J. M.} and D. Mroczek and {Nava Acuna}, {A. R.} and J. Noronha-Hostler and P. Parotto and Price, {D. R.P.} and C. Ratti",
note = "Funding Information: The authors would like to thank Volker Koch, Volodymyr Vovchenko, and Travis Dore for fruitful discussion. We would also like to thank Hannah Elfner, Anna Sch{\"a}fer, and Dmytro Oliinychenko for their assistance in obtaining the hadronic list from SMASH. Furthermore, we would like to acknowledge our fellow BEST collaboration members for helping motivate this work at the previous collaboration meeting. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY1654219, the US-DOE Nuclear Science Grant No. DE-SC0020633, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. DGE-1746047, and by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, within the framework of the Beam Energy Scan Topical (BEST) Collaboration. We also acknowledge the support from the Center of Advanced Computing and Data Systems at the University of Houston. P.P. acknowledges support by the DFG Grant SFB/TR55. Funding Information: The authors would like to thank Volker Koch, Volodymyr Vovchenko, and Travis Dore for fruitful discussion. We would also like to thank Hannah Elfner, Anna Sch?fer, and Dmytro Oliinychenko for their assistance in obtaining the hadronic list from SMASH. Furthermore, we would like to acknowledge our fellow BEST collaboration members for helping motivate this work at the previous collaboration meeting. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY1654219, the US-DOE Nuclear Science Grant No. DE-SC0020633, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. DGE-1746047, and by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, within the framework of the Beam Energy Scan Topical (BEST) Collaboration. We also acknowledge the support from the Center of Advanced Computing and Data Systems at the University of Houston. P.P. acknowledges support by the DFG Grant SFB/TR55. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Societ{\`a} Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.",
year = "2021",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01615-5",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "136",
journal = "European Physical Journal Plus",
issn = "2190-5444",
publisher = "Springer",
number = "6",
}