Isolating dynamical net-charge fluctuations
Nuclear Theory
2019-03-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
We modify the usual definitions of cumulants of net-charge fluctuations in a way that isolates dynamical fluctuations. The new observables, which we call dynamical cumulants, are robust with respect to trivial correlations induced by volume fluctuations and global charge conservation. We illustrate the potential of dynamical cumulants by carrying out Monte Carlo simulations where all correlations are trivial. The results of our simulations agree well with Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) data, and are used to illustrate that dynamical cumulants consistently isolate dynamical fluctuations.
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@article{arxiv.1809.00648,
title = {Isolating dynamical net-charge fluctuations},
author = {Rudolph Rogly and Giuliano Giacalone and Jean-Yves Ollitrault},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.00648},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
9 pages; 3 figures; v2: Sec. V added on the effects of resonance decays