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Probing the QCD Critical Point by Higher Moments of Net-Charge Distribution

Nuclear Experiment 2011-01-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The Beam Energy Scan program has been undertaken at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to search for the QCD critical point. The presence of the critical point is expected to lead to non-monotonic behavior of several quantities. Here we report the result of higher moments of net-charge distributions for Au+Au collisions at sNN\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 39 GeV as measured by the STAR experiment. The STAR results are compared with results from HIJING event generator and Hadron Resonance (HRG) Models.

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@article{arxiv.1101.5125,
  title  = {Probing the QCD Critical Point by Higher Moments of Net-Charge Distribution},
  author = {Nihar Ranjan Sahoo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.5125},
  year   = {2011}
}

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Submitted to the Proceedings of ICPAQGP-2010 Conference, Dec 5-10, 2010