Scaling for count-in-cell and factorial moment analysis
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2025-02-27 v1
Abstract
The investigation of remnants associated with the QCD chiral critical point is a primary objective in high-energy ion collision experiments. Numerous studies indicate that a scaling relation between higher-order factorial moments of hadron multiplicity distributions and the second factorial moment may serve as a diagnostic tool for identifying the QCD critical point. However, we demonstrate that this scaling behavior is not exclusive to critical phenomena but rather arises as a general consequence of the phase-space partitioning procedure employed in the analysis. This finding is examined in the context of recent intermittency analyses conducted by the STAR experiment at RHIC.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2502.19045,
title = {Scaling for count-in-cell and factorial moment analysis},
author = {Valeria Zelina Reyna Ortiz and Maciej Rybczynski and Zbigniew Wlodarczyk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.19045},
year = {2025}
}