We present a new lattice-QCD-based equation of state in the four-dimensional space of $(T,μ_B,μ_Q,μ_S)$ which features a critical surface. This is obtained by generalizing the expansion of constant entropy density contours across the multiple …
We investigate QCD thermodynamics in the intermediate-temperature regime using a gas of confining strings supplemented by excluded volume (EV) corrections. In this description, the discrete hadron resonance spectrum is replaced by an exponentially …
We present, to our knowledge, the first Bayesian extraction of baryon number susceptibilities of QCD matter at finite baryon density from heavy-ion collision data on proton number cumulants. The framework embeds arbitrary equation-of-state …
We construct a simple equation of state of strongly interacting matter at zero chemical potentials that provides a unified description of lattice QCD thermodynamics in terms of hadronic and partonic degrees of freedom. The hadronic phase is described …
We provide the first mapping of the critical surface in (2+1)-flavor QCD in the full $(T,μ_B,μ_Q,μ_S)$ space, anchored on lattice QCD results at vanishing chemical potentials and obtained within an expansion along contours of constant entropy …
The equation of state of hot and dense matter is essential for describing heavy-ion collisions at all collision energies. Here, we explore the capabilities of the latest version of the MUSES Calculation Engine, $\textit{Calliope}$, focusing on …
Electric charge fluctuations $χ_n^Q$ allow comparisons between theory and experiment, but are elusive on the lattice due to severe cutoff effects. We use a 4HEX action to obtain $χ_2^Q$ and, for the first time ever, $χ_4^Q$ in the continuum limit. We …
We study higher-order cumulants of the conserved baryon number at the LHC within the canonical ensemble with local baryon conservation. We generalize the density correlations approach of [Phys. Rev. C 110, L061902 (2024)] to incorporate the effect of …
The STAR collaboration at RHIC and the ALICE collaboration at the LHC have reported dielectron spectra in the intermediate mass region, M = (1-3) GeV, which reveal a strikingly constant, energy-independent emission temperature $T_{IMR} \simeq …