Charged Particle Ratio Fluctuation as a Signal for QGP
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v3 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
In this letter we argue that the event-by-event fluctuations of the ratio of the positively charged and the negatively charged pions provides a signal of quark-gluon plasma. The fact that quarks carry fractional charges is ultimately responsible for this distinct signal.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0003168,
title = {Charged Particle Ratio Fluctuation as a Signal for QGP},
author = {S. Jeon and V. Koch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0003168},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages in latex. Submitted simultaneously with hep-ph/0003169. This revised version to appear in PRL