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Baryon Number Fluctuations in Quasi-particle Model

Nuclear Theory 2017-04-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Baryon number fluctuations are sensitive to the QCD phase transition and QCD critical point. According to the Feynman rules of finite-temperature field theory, we calculated various order moments and cumulants of the baryon number distributions in the quasi-particle model of quark gluon plasma. Furthermore, we compared our results with the experimental data measured by the STAR experiment at RHIC. It is found that the experimental data can be well described by the model for the colliding energies above 30 GeV and show large discrepancies at low energies. It can put new constraint on qQGP model and also provide a baseline for the QCD critical point search in heavy-ion collisions at low energies.

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@article{arxiv.1609.01416,
  title  = {Baryon Number Fluctuations in Quasi-particle Model},
  author = {Ameng Zhao and Xiaofeng Luo and Hongshi Zong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.01416},
  year   = {2017}
}

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13 pages, 5 figures