Strangeness fluctuations from K-π interactions

Bengt Friman , Pok Man Lo , Micha{\l} Marczenko , Krzysztof Redlich , Chihiro Sasaki

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keywords fluctuationsinteractionsstrangenessphaseresonancesthermodynamicsapproachbroad

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Motivated by recent lattice QCD studies, we explore the effects of interactions on strangeness fluctuations in strongly interacting matter at finite temperature. We focus on S-wave $K\pi$ scattering and discuss the role of the $K_0^*(800)$ and $K^*(1430)$ resonances. The interaction contribution is obtained within the S-matrix formulation of thermodynamics, using the empirical $K\pi$ phase shifts as input. We find that the simplified treatment of the interactions in this channel, employed in the hadron resonance gas approach, leads to an overestimate of the strangeness fluctuations. Thus, our calculation indicates that broad resonances must be treated with caution, when modeling QCD thermodynamics in the hadronic phase.

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