Clusters and higher moments of proton number fluctuations
Nuclear Theory
2017-12-12 v1 Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
Production of deuterons by coalescence has an important influence on the moments of the observed proton number distribution. Therefore, this effect must be taken into account when physics conclusions about baryon number fluctuation are drawn from the measurement of proton number fluctuations. We also show that a measurement of the third and fourth moments of the deuteron number distribution would allow to distinguish whether deuterons are produced statistically or by coalescence.
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@article{arxiv.1712.03770,
title = {Clusters and higher moments of proton number fluctuations},
author = {Boris Tomasik and Zuzana Paulinyova and Jan Steinheimer and Marcus Bleicher},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.03770},
year = {2017}
}
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9 pages, proceedings of Critical Point and the Onset of Deconfinement, Stony Brook, Aug. 7-11, 2017