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Interplay between chiral dynamics and repulsive interactions in hot hadronic matter

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 103, Issue 5, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.054035

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  1. Polish National Science Center (NCN), under OPUS Grant [2018/31/B/ST2/01663]
  2. Polish National Science Center (NCN), under Preludium Grant [UMO-2017/27/N/ST2/01973]
  3. Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education

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The study investigates fluctuations of the net-baryon number density in hot hadronic matter, considering the interplay between chiral dynamics and repulsive interactions. Higher-order cumulants are substantially suppressed near the chiral phase transition due to repulsive interactions, with the characteristic properties near the chiral crossover linked to critical chiral dynamics.
We investigate fluctuations of the net-baryon number density in hot hadronic matter. We discuss the interplay between chiral dynamics and repulsive interactions and their influence on the properties of these fluctuations near the chiral crossover. The chiral dynamics is modeled by the parity doublet Lagrangian that incorporates the attractive and repulsive interactions mediated via the exchange of scalar and vector mesons, respectively. The mean-field approximation is employed to account for chiral criticality. We focus on the qualitative properties and systematics of the cumulants of the net-baryon number density up to the sixth order. It is shown that the higher-order cumulants exhibit a substantial suppression in the vicinity of the chiral phase transition due to the presence of repulsive interactions. We find, however, that the characteristic properties of cumulants near the chiral crossover observed in lattice QCD results are entirely linked to the critical chiral dynamics and, in general, cannot be reproduced in phenomenological models, which account only for effective repulsive interactions via excluded-volume corrections or van der Waals-type interactions. Consequently, a description of the higher-order cumulants of the net-baryon density in the chiral crossover requires a self-consistent treatment of the chiral in-medium effects and repulsive interactions.

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