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Higher moment fluctuations of identified particle distributions from ALICE

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-02-20 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Cumulants of conserved charges fluctuations are regarded as a potential tool to study the criticality in the QCD phase diagram and to determine the freeze-out parameters in a model-independent way. At LHC energies, the measurements of the ratio of the net-baryon (net-proton) cumulants can be used to test the lattice QCD predictions. In this work, we present the first measurements of cumulants of the net-proton number distributions up to 4th4^{th} order in Pb--Pb collisions at sNN\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 2.76 and 5.02 TeV as a function of collision centrality. We compare our cumulant ratios results with the STAR experiment net-proton results measured in the first phase of the Beam Energy Scan program at RHIC. The results can be used to obtain the chemical freeze-out parameters at LHC.

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@article{arxiv.1807.06780,
  title  = {Higher moment fluctuations of identified particle distributions from ALICE},
  author = {Nirbhay Kumar Behera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.06780},
  year   = {2019}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of XXVIIth International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2018)