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We address the role of fluctuations in strongly interacting matter during the dense stages of a heavy-ion collision through its electromagnetic emission. Fluctuations of isospin charge are considered in a thermal system at rest as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Prakash , R. Rapp , J. Wambach , I. Zahed

We study the fluctuations and correlations of conserved charges, i.e. the baryon number, electric charge and the strangeness at finite temperature and nonzero baryon chemical potential with an effective model. The fluctuations are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Wei-jie Fu , Yue-liang Wu

Multiplicity fluctuations are one of the most crucial observables in the Beam Energy Scan program of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. It is understood that they can be utilized to probe the whereabouts of the critical point on the phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-12 Hong-Hao Ma , Dan Wen , Kai Lin , Wei-Liang Qian , Bin Wang , Yogiro Hama , Takeshi Kodama

We consider non-equilibrium evolution of non-Gaussian fluctuations in a hydrodynamic system undergoing a boost-invariant expansion described by Bjorken flow. We derive the evolution equations for two- and three-point velocity correlators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-01 Gokce Basar , Shuo Song

The QCD critical point can be found in heavy ion collision experiments via the non-monotonic behavior of many fluctuation observables as a function of the collision energy. The event-by-event fluctuations of various particle multiplicities…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 Christiana Athanasiou , Krishna Rajagopal , Misha Stephanov

We propose a general approach to freezing out fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions using the principle of maximum entropy. We find the results naturally expressed as a direct relationship between the irreducible relative correlators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Maneesha Sushama Pradeep , Mikhail Stephanov

The dynamic separation into phases of high and low baryon density in a heavy ion collision can enhance fluctuations of the net rapidity density of baryons compared to model expectations. We show how these fluctuations arise and how they can…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sean Gavin

Non-statistical event-by-event fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have been proposed as a probe of the phase transition of hadronic matter to a deconfined phase of quarks and gluons, the so-called Quark-Gluon Plasma. In a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Nirbhay Kumar Behera

This chapter provides a pedagogical introduction and overview of spatial and temporal correlation and fluctuation effects resulting from the fundamentally stochastic kinetics underlying chemical reactions and the dynamics of populations or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-22 Uwe C. Täuber

Hydrodynamic fluctuations have been studied in a wide variety of physical, chemical, and biological phenomena in the past decade. In high energy heavy ion collisions, there will be intrinsic fluctuations even if the initial conditions are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-18 Joseph I. Kapusta , Juan M. Torres-Rincon

We introduce a novel freeze-out procedure connecting the hydrodynamic evolution of a droplet of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) that has, as it expanded and cooled, passed close to a posited critical point on the QCD phase diagram with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-01 Maneesha Pradeep , Krishna Rajagopal , Misha Stephanov , Yi Yin

Many simulations of relativistic heavy ion collisions involve the switching from relativistic hydrodynamics to kinetic particle transport. This switching entails the sampling of particles from the distribution of energy, momentum and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-16 Dmytro Oliinychenko , Shuzhe Shi , Volker Koch

The QCD Critical Point is a pivotal feature of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter. Signatures of the critical point are expected to manifest through the non-monotonic behavior of higher-order moments of conserved quantities,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-30 Amal Sarkar , Paramita Deb , Bidhan Mandal , Raghava Varma

In this work we study the consequences of a longitudinal Bjorken expansion and a Hubble-like temperature cooling scenario on a 1+1D non-linear model of the diffusive dynamics of fluctuations in the net-baryon density. The equilibrium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-01 Grégoire Pihan , Marcus Bluhm , Masakiyo Kitazawa , Taklit Sami , Marlene Nahrgang

We introduce a freeze-out procedure to convert the critical fluctuations in a droplet of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) that has, as it expanded and cooled, passed close to a posited critical point on the phase diagram into cumulants of hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-31 Maneesha Pradeep , Krishna Rajagopal , Mikhail Stephanov , Yi Yin

We develop a dynamical model to describe critical fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions, incorporating the baryon diffusion current and chiral condensate as dynamical degrees of freedom, to address their nontrivial scale separation. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-26 Azumi Sakai , Koichi Murase , Hirotsugu Fujii , Tetsufumi Hirano

As one of the possible signals for the whereabouts of the critical point on the QCD phase diagram, recently, the multiplicity fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions have aroused much attention. It is a crucial observable of the Beam Energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-24 Hong-Hao Ma , Kai Lin , Wei-Liang Qian , Bin Wang

In the context of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, we explore the stochastic and dissipative relaxational dynamics of a non-conserved order parameter in a $\lambda\varphi^4$ interaction. The cutoff of the theory is provided by the lattice…

Out of equilibrium quantum systems, on top of quantum fluctuations, display complex temporal patterns. Such time fluctuations are generically exponentially small in the system volume and can be therefore safely ignored in most of the cases.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Paolo Zanardi

We investigate the effect of a finite volume on the critical behavior of the theory of the strong interaction (QCD) by means of a quark-meson model for two quark flavors. In particular, we analyze the effect of a finite volume on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-17 Ralf-Arno Tripolt , Jens Braun , Bertram Klein , Bernd-Jochen Schaefer