Thermodynamics of a gas of hadrons with attractive and repulsive interaction within S-matrix formalism

TL;DR

This study extends the Hadron Resonance Gas model by incorporating repulsive interactions via S-matrix formalism, revealing their impact on thermodynamic observables and aligning results with lattice QCD data.

Contribution

It introduces a method to include repulsive interactions in the HRG model using phase shifts, providing a more comprehensive thermodynamic description of hadronic matter.

Findings

Repulsive interactions suppress thermodynamic variables.

Good agreement with lattice QCD for $C_{BS}$.

Quantified interaction parameters comparable to van der Waals model.

Abstract

We report the effect of including repulsive interactions on various thermodynamic observables calculated using a S-matrix based Hadron Resonance Gas (HRG) model to already available corresponding results with only attractive interactions [A. Dash, S. Samanta, and B. Mohanty, Phys. Rev. C 97, 055208 (2018)]. The attractive part of the interaction is calculated by parameterizing the two body phase shifts using K-matrix formalism while the repulsive part is included by fitting to the experimental phase shifts which carry the information about the nature of the interaction. We find that the bulk thermodynamic variables for a gas of hadrons such as energy density, pressure, entropy density, speed of sound and specific heat are suppressed by the inclusion of repulsive interactions and are more pronounced for second and higher order correlations and fluctuations, particularly for the observables $\chi^2_Q$, $\chi^2_B-\chi^4_B$ and $C_{BS}$ in the present model. We find a good agreement between lattice QCD simulations and the present model for $C_{BS}$. We have also computed two leading order Fourier coefficients of the imaginary part of the first order baryonic susceptibility at imaginary baryon chemical potential within this model and compared them with the corresponding results from lattice. Additionally, assuming that the value of interacting pressure versus temperature for a gas of hadrons calculated in S-matrix formalism is same as that from a van der Waals HRG (VDWHRG) model, we have quantified the attractive and repulsive interactions in our model in terms of attractive and repulsive parameters used in the VDWHRG model. The values of parameters thus obtained are $a=1.54\pm 0.064$ GeV $\text{fm}^{3}$ and $r=0.81\pm 0.014$ fm.