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Critical net-proton number fluctuations with hydrodynamics

Nuclear Theory 2026-07-29 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We compute the net-proton number fluctuations and their ratios C2/C1C_2/C_1, C3/C2C_3/C_2 and C4/C2C_4/C_2 on the hydrodynamic freeze-out hypersurface of particlization at nine collision energies, sNN=7.7200\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=7.7-200 GeV, based on the fluctuations obtained from the functional renormalization group (fRG) approach, where both the regular and the critical fluctuations arising from the critical end point (CEP) are included. The transverse momentum and rapidity acceptance windows as same as the experimental measurements, the isospin randomization for the proton number fluctuations, and the global baryon conservation effect are implemented in the calculations. The results are also compared with the baseline results without critical fluctuations. It is found that for the low-order cumulants, e.g., C2/C1C_2/C_1 the difference between the critical and non-critical results is small, while the difference increases with the increasing order of cumulants in the region of low collision energy. A non-monotonic dependence on the collision energy is observed in C4/C2C_4/C_2 with critical fluctuations, which is absent in the results without critical fluctuations.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.26912,
  title  = {Critical net-proton number fluctuations with hydrodynamics},
  author = {Rui-zhe Zhao and Shi Yin and Shanjin Wu and Lipei Du and Xiaofeng Luo and Wei-jie Fu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.26912},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

7+2 pages, 4 figures