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The QCD phase diagram and statistics friendly distributions

Nuclear Theory 2021-02-03 v1

Abstract

The preliminary STAR data for proton cumulants for central collisions at \sqrt{s}=7.7 GeV are consistent with a two-component proton multiplicity distribution. We show that this two-component distribution is statistics friendly in that factorial cumulants of surprisingly high orders may be extracted with a relatively small number of events. As a consequence the two-component model can be tested and verified right now with the presently available STAR data from the first phase of the RHIC beam energy scan.

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@article{arxiv.2001.11079,
  title  = {The QCD phase diagram and statistics friendly distributions},
  author = {Volker Koch and Adam Bzdak and Dmytro Oliinychenko and Jan Steinheimer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.11079},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Proceedings, Quark Matter 2019, Wuhan

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