Hadron resonance gas with van der Waals interactions

Understand

An overview of a hadron resonance gas (HRG) model that includes van der Waals interactions between hadrons is presented.

• Applications of the excluded volume HRG model to heavy-ion collision data and lattice QCD equation of state are discussed.
• A recently developed quantum van der Waals hadron resonance gas model is covered as well.
• Applications of this model in the context of the QCD critical point are elaborated.