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Baryon number fluctuations induced by hadronic interactions at low temperature and large chemical potential

Nuclear Theory 2020-04-29 v1

Abstract

We investigate the density fluctuations induced by hadronic interactions at low temperatures and large chemical potentials after the hadronization of quark-gluon plasma~(QGP). We analyze the structures of net-baryon number kurtosis and skewness and elaborate on their relations with the nuclear liquid-gas~(LG) phase transition and hadronic interactions above the critical temperature. Combining with the relevant experimental projects at RHIC/NICA/FAIR/J-PARC/HIAF with collision energies from 200200\,GeV to 1.81.8\,GeV, we propose a double-peak structure of kurtosis (skewness) as a function of collision energy, which can be taken to identify the chiral phase transition and the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition. In particular, the fluctuation distributions at low temperatures provide a new method to explore hadronic interactions and nuclear liquid-gas transition.

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@article{arxiv.2004.06377,
  title  = {Baryon number fluctuations induced by hadronic interactions at low temperature and large chemical potential},
  author = {Guo-yun Shao and Xue-yan Gao and Wei-bo He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.06377},
  year   = {2020}
}

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14 pages, 6 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. D