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Thermal fluctuations in the interacting pion gas

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We derive the two-particle fluctuation correlator in a thermal gas of pi-mesons to the lowest order in an interaction due to a resonance exchange. A diagrammatic technique is used. We discuss how this result can be applied to event-by-event fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions, in particular, to search for the critical point of QCD. As a practical example, we determine the shape of the rapidity correlator.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0110077,
  title  = {Thermal fluctuations in the interacting pion gas},
  author = {M. Stephanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0110077},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX