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Cumulants of conserved charges in hydrodynamic simulations

Nuclear Theory 2023-02-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We introduce a fast and simple method of computing cumulants of net-proton or net-charge fluctuations in event-by-event hydrodynamic simulations of heavy-ion collisions. One evaluates the mean numbers of particles in every hydrodynamic event. Cumulants are then expressed as a function of these mean numbers. We implement the corrections due to global conservation laws. The method is tested using ideal hydrodynamic simulations of Au+Au collisions at sNN=200\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 AGeV with the NeXSPheRIO code. Results are in good agreement with experimental data on net-proton and net-charge fluctuations by the STAR collaboration.

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@article{arxiv.2204.07181,
  title  = {Cumulants of conserved charges in hydrodynamic simulations},
  author = {Renan Hirayama and Frederique Grassi and Willian Matioli Serenone and Jean-Yves Ollitrault},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.07181},
  year   = {2023}
}