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Baryon production and net-proton distributions in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Nuclear Theory 2013-05-29 v2 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

The higher order moments of the net-baryon distributions in relativistic heavy ion collisions are useful probes for the QCD critical point and fluctuations. We study the net-proton distributions and their moments in a simple model which considers the baryon stopping and pair production effects in the processes. It is shown that a single emission source model can explain the experimental data well. Centrality and energy dependence of the distributions and higher moments is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1107.4740,
  title  = {Baryon production and net-proton distributions in relativistic heavy ion collisions},
  author = {C. B. Yang and X. Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.4740},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

5 pages in RevTex, 8 eps figures, to be appeared in PRC