QCD critical point and event-by-event fluctuations in heavy ion collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-06-25 v1
Abstract
A summary of work done in collaboration with K. Rajagopal and E. Shuryak. We show how heavy ion collision experiments, in particular, event-by-event fluctuation measurements, can lead to the discovery of the critical point on the phase diagram of QCD.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9907312,
title = {QCD critical point and event-by-event fluctuations in heavy ion collisions},
author = {M. Stephanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9907312},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages. Summary of work done in collaboration with K. Rajagopal and E. Shuryak (hep-ph/9903292). To be published in the proceedings of Quark Matter 99, Torino, Italy, May 10-14, 1999