Working Group: Heavy Ions

The Equation of State for Heavy Ions working group will develop and optimize the equation of state module, in the regime of high temperature and small-to-intermediate density, suitable for the entire range covered by the different collision energies accessible in the experiments.

This family of equations of state will be obtained from lattice QCD simulations, when feasible, and extended beyond their reach by means of the Hadron Resonance Gas model at low temperatures (in its ideal, excluded volume and van der Waals versions), the inclusion of a critical point in the 3D-Ising model universality class, and connections to effective models at high baryon density developed in the Equation of State for Neutron Stars working group.

Different scenarios of chemical potentials for electric charge and baryon number will be explored, to match either the heavy-ion collisions conditions, or the isospin asymmetric neutron star conditions. The latter will serve as a constraint for the high-density models.

This working group will work in close contact with all other working groups: it will generate constraints for the neutron star equation of state, the cyberinfrastructure scientists will work on its integration into MUSES and the users working group will provide input on the community needs.


Claudia Ratti

University of Houston

Faculty

Spokesperson for MUSES

Veronica Dexheimer

Kent State University

Faculty

Hannah Elfner

GSI/Goethe University Frankfurt

Faculty

Joaquin Grefa

University of Houston

Graduate Student

Micheal Kahangirwe

University of Houston

Graduate Student

Jamie Karthein

University of Houston

Graduate Student

Matthew Luzum

University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Faculty

Angel Nava Acuna

University of Houston

Graduate Student

Jorge Noronha

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Faculty

Jaki Noronha-Hostler

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Faculty

Israel Portillo Vazquez

University of Houston

Faculty

Bjoern Schenke

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Faculty

Michael Strickland

Kent State University

Faculty

Nicolas Yunes

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Faculty

Principal Investigator for MUSES

Jordi Salinas San Martin

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Graduate Student

Hitansh Shah

University of Houston

Graduate Student

Johannes Jahan

University of Houston

Postdoctoral Researcher

Volodymyr Vovchenko

University of Houston

Faculty

Agnieszka Sorensen

University of Washington

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ahmed Abuali

University of Houston

Graduate Student

Prachi Garella

University of Houston

Graduate Student

Musa Rahim Khan

University of Houston

Graduate Student