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QCD Critical Point and Net-Proton Number Fluctuations at RHIC-STAR

Nuclear Experiment 2022-02-03 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

In the search of QCD phase boundary and critical point, higher-order cumulants of conserved quantities are proposed as promising observables and have been studied extensively both experimentally and theoretically. In this paper we present cumulant ratios up to 6th6^{th}-order of net-proton number distributions in Au+Au collisions at sNN\sqrt{\mathrm{s_{NN}}} = 7.7 - 200 GeV from STAR Beam Energy Scan program phase I and s\sqrt{\mathrm{s}} = 200 GeV p+pp+p collisions. The results are compared with various models and Lattice QCD calculations.

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@article{arxiv.2108.03800,
  title  = {QCD Critical Point and Net-Proton Number Fluctuations at RHIC-STAR},
  author = {Yu Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.03800},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures; contribution to the 19th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2021)