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Multiplicity difference correlators under first-order QGP phase transition

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

The multiplicity difference correlators between two well-separated bins in high-energy heavy-ion collisions are studied as a means to detect evidence of a first-order quark-hadron phase transition. Analytical expressions for the scaled factorial moments of multiplicity difference distribution are obtained for small bin size δ\delta with mean multiplicity in the bin sˉ1.0{\bar s}\le 1.0 within Ginzburg-Landau description. The scaling behaviors between the moments are still valid, though they behave completely different from the so-called intermittency patterns. A universal exponent γ=1.4066\gamma=1.4066 is given to describe the dynamical fluctuations in the phase transition in small δ\delta limit.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9711329,
  title  = {Multiplicity difference correlators under first-order QGP phase transition},
  author = {C. B. Yang and X. Cai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9711329},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, RevTeX, 3 figures in EPS format