Identity method to study chemical fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Nuclear Theory
2011-06-06 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
Event-by-event fluctuations of the chemical composition of the hadronic final state of relativistic heavy-ion collisions carry valuable information on the properties of strongly interacting matter produced in the collisions. However, in experiments incomplete particle identification distorts the observed fluctuation signals. The effect is quantitatively studied and a new technique for measuring chemical fluctuations, the identity method, is proposed. The method fully eliminates the effect of incomplete particle identification. The application of the identity method to experimental data is explained.
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@article{arxiv.1103.2887,
title = {Identity method to study chemical fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions},
author = {M. Gazdzicki and K. Grebieszkow and M. Mackowiak and St. Mrowczynski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.2887},
year = {2011}
}
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8 pages