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A Study of the QCD Critical Point Using Particle Ratio Fluctuations

Dynamical fluctuations in global conserved quantities such as baryon number, strangeness, or charge may be observed near a QCD critical point. Results from new measurements of dynamical $K/\pi$ and $p/\pi$ ratio fluctuations are presented.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-21 Terence J Tarnowsky

Study of Dynamical $K/\pi$ and $p/\pi$ Fluctuations in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 22.4 GeV Cu+Cu Collisions from the STAR Experiment

Results from the measurement of dynamical $K/\pi$ and $p/\pi$ ratio fluctuations are presented. Dynamical fluctuations in global conserved quantities such as baryon number, strangeness, or charge may be observed near a QCD critical point.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Terence J Tarnowsky

Searching for the QCD Critical Point Using Particle Ratio Fluctuations and Higher Moments of Multiplicity Distributions

Dynamical fluctuations in global conserved quantities such as baryon number, strangeness, or charge may be observed near a QCD critical point. Results from new measurements of dynamical $K/\pi$, $p/\pi$, and $K/p$ ratio fluctuations are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Terence J Tarnowsky

Charge Dependence and Scaling Properties of Dynamical $K/\pi$, $p/\pi$, and $K/p$ Fluctuations from the STAR Experiment

Dynamical fluctuations in global conserved quantities such as baryon number, strangeness, or charge may be enhanced near a QCD critical point. Charge dependent results from new measurements of dynamical $K/\pi$, $p/\pi$, and $K/p$ ratio…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-11-02 Terence J. Tarnowsky

Energy Dependence of $K\pi$, $p\pi$, and $Kp$ Fluctuations in Au+Au Collisions from $\rm \sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 7.7 to 200 GeV

A search for the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) critical point was performed by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, using dynamical fluctuations of unlike particle pairs. Heavy-ion collisions were studied over a large…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-08-26 STAR Collaboration , L. Adamczyk , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , I. Alekseev , J. Alford , A. Aparin , D. Arkhipkin , E. C. Aschenauer , G. S. Averichev , A. Banerjee , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , A. K. Bhati , P. Bhattarai , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. Bouchet , A. V. Brandin , I. Bunzarov , T. P. Burton , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , J. M. campbell , D. Cebra , M. C. Cervantes , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , Z. Chang , S. Chattopadhyay , X. Chen , J. H. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Cherney , W. Christie , M. J. M. Codrington , G. Contin , H. J. Crawford , S. Das , L. C. De Silva , R. R. Debbe , T. G. Dedovich , J. Deng , A. A. Derevschikov , B. di Ruzza , L. Didenko , C. Dilks , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. E. Draper , C. M. Du , L. E. Dunkelberger , J. C. Dunlop , L. G. Efimov , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , R. Esha , O. Evdokimov , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , P. Federic , J. Fedorisin , Feng , P. Filip , Y. Fisyak , C. E. Flores , L. Fulek , C. A. Gagliardi , D. Garand , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , M. Girard , L. Greiner , D. Grosnick , D. S. Gunarathne , Y. Guo , A. Gupta , S. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. Hamad , A. Hamed , R. Haque , J. W. Harris , L. He , S. Heppelmann , A. Hirsch , G. W. Hoffmann , D. J. Hofman , S. Horvat , H. Z. Huang , B. Huang , X. Huang , P. Huck , T. J. Humanic , G. Igo , W. W. Jacobs , H. Jang , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , Z. H. Khan , D. P. Kikola , I. Kisel , A. Kisiel , S. R. Klein , D. D. Koetke , T. Kollegger , L. K. Kosarzewski , L. Kotchenda , A. F. Kraishan , P. Kravtsov , K. Krueger , I. Kulakov , L. Kumar , R. A. Kycia , M. A. C. Lamont , J. M. Landgraf , K. D. Landry , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , W. Li , Z. M. Li , C. Li , Y. Li , X. Li , X. Li , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , M. Lomnitz , R. S. Longacre , X. Luo , L. Ma , R. Ma , G. L. Ma , Y. G. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Majka , A. Manion , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. Masui , H. S. Matis , D. McDonald , K. Meehan , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , D. A. Morozov , M. K. Mustafa , B. K. Nandi , Md. Nasim , T. K. Nayak , G. Nigmatkulov , L. V. Nogach , S. Y. Noh , J. Novak , S. B. Nurushev , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , K. Oh , V. Okorokov , D. L. Olvitt , B. S. Page , Y. X. Pan , Y. Pandit , Y. Panebratsev , T. Pawlak , B. Pawlik , H. Pei , C. Perkins , A. Peterson , P. Pile , M. Planinic , J. Pluta , N. Poljak , K. Poniatowska , J. Porter , A. M. Poskanzer , N. K. Pruthi , J. Putschke , H. Qiu , A. Quintero , S. Ramachandran , S. Raniwala , R. Raniwala , R. L. Ray , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , A. Roy , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , O. Rusnakova , N. R. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , I. Sakrejda , S. Salur , A. Sandacz , J. Sandweiss , A. Sarkar , J. Schambach , R. P. Scharenberg , A. M. Schmah , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , J. Seger , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , M. Shao , M. K. Sharma , B. Sharma , W. Q. Shen , S. S. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , R. Sikora , M. Simko , M. J. Skoby , D. Smirnov , N. Smirnov , D. Solanki , L. Song , P. Sorensen , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , R. Stock , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , M. Sumbera , B. J. Summa , Z. Sun , Y. Sun , X. M. Sun , X. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , M. A. Szelezniak , J. Takahashi , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , T. Tarnowsky , A. N. Tawfik , J. H. Thomas , J. Tian , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , M. Tokarev , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , S. K. Tripathy , B. A. Trzeciak , O. D. Tsai , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , G. van Nieuwenhuizen , M. Vandenbroucke , R. Varma , A. N. Vasiliev , R. Vertesi , F. Videbæk , Y. P. Viyogi , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , A. Vossen , Y. Wang , F. Wang , J. S. Wang , H. Wang , G. Wang , Y. Wang , J. C. Webb , G. Webb , L. Wen , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , Y. F. Wu , Z. Xiao , W. Xie , K. Xin , N. Xu , H. Xu , Y. F. Xu , Q. H. Xu , Z. Xu , Y. Yang , S. Yang , C. Yang , Y. Yang , Q. Yang , Z. Ye , P. Yepes , L. Yi , K. Yip , I. -K. Yoo , N. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , J. Zhang , Y. Zhang , S. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , J. B. Zhang , J. L. Zhang , Z. Zhang , F. Zhao , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , X. Zhu , Y. Zoulkarneeva , M. Zyzak

Search for QCD Phase Transitions and the Critical Point utilizing Particle Ratio Fluctuations and Transverse Momentum Correlations from the STAR Experiment

Dynamical fluctuations of the globally conserved quantities in heavy ion collision such as baryon number, strangeness, charge, and isospin are suggested to carry information about the deconfinement and chiral phase transitions. The STAR…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-12 Prithwish Tribedy

K/pi Fluctuations at Relativistic Energies

We report results for $K/\pi$ fluctuations from Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 19.6, 62.4, 130, and 200 GeV using the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Our results for $K/\pi$ fluctuations in central collisions…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-02 B. I. Abelev

STAR's Measurement of Energy and System Size Dependence of K/$\pi$ Fluctuations at RHIC

Strangeness enhancement has been predicted to be one of the signatures of the formation of the quark gluon plasma (QGP) and event-by-event fluctuations of strangeness may reveal the nature of such a phase transition. We report results for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Zubayer Ahammed

Multiplicity fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=130$ GeV

We present the results of charged particle fluctuations measurements in Au + Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=130$ GeV using the STAR detector. Dynamical fluctuations measurements are presented for inclusive charged particle multiplicities…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Adams

Event by Event fluctuation in K/pi ratio at RHIC

We present the preliminary results from our analysis of event by event fluctuation in K/pi ratio in Au+Au collision at \sqrt s_{NN} = 200 GeV and at 62.4 GeV using STAR detector at RHIC. Two different methods have been used to extract the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Supriya Das

Correlations and Fluctuations in STAR

We report measurements for the balance function, transverse momentum fluctuations, and net charge fluctuations from Au+Au collisions at 20, 130, and 200 GeV as well as p+p and d+Au collisions at 200 GeV using STAR at RHIC. For Au+Au…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Gary D. Westfall

Probing the Quark-Gluon Phase Transition with Correlations and Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions from the STAR Experiment

The measurement of particle correlations and fluctuations has been suggested as a method to search for the existence of a phase transition in relativistic heavy ion collisions. If quark-gluon matter is formed in the collision of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Terence J. Tarnowsky

Dynamical net charge fluctuations at RHIC energies in STAR

We present preliminary results from the study of dynamical net-charge fluctuations measured in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 39 GeV to 7.7 GeV and compare with the published results at higher collision energies. We also present the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-12-02 Bhanu Sharma

Beam energy dependence of net-$\Lambda$ fluctuations measured by the STAR experiment at RHIC

The measurements of particle multiplicity distributions have generated considerable interest in understanding the fluctuations of conserved quantum numbers in the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) hadronization regime, in particular near a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-08-12 STAR Collaboration , J. Adam , L. Adamczyk , J. R. Adams , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , I. Alekseev , D. M. Anderson , A. Aparin , E. C. Aschenauer , M. U. Ashraf , F. G. Atetalla , A. Attri , G. S. Averichev , V. Bairathi , K. Barish , A. Behera , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. D. Brandenburg , A. V. Brandin , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , D. Cebra , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , B. K. Chan , F-H. Chang , Z. Chang , N. Chankova-Bunzarova , A. Chatterjee , D. Chen , J. H. Chen , X. Chen , Z. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Cherney , M. Chevalier , S. Choudhury , W. Christie , H. J. Crawford , M. Csanád , M. Daugherity , T. G. Dedovich , I. M. Deppner , A. A. Derevschikov , L. Didenko , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. C. Dunlop , T. Edmonds , N. Elsey , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , R. Esha , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , A. Ewigleben , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , P. Federic , J. Fedorisin , C. J. Feng , Y. Feng , P. Filip , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , A. Francisco , L. Fulek , C. A. Gagliardi , T. Galatyuk , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , K. Gopal , D. Grosnick , W. Guryn , A. I. Hamad , A. Hamed , J. W. Harris , S. He , W. He , X. He , S. Heppelmann , S. Heppelmann , N. Herrmann , E. Hoffman , L. Holub , Y. Hong , S. Horvat , Y. Hu , H. Z. Huang , S. L. Huang , T. Huang , X. Huang , T. J. Humanic , P. Huo , G. Igo , D. Isenhower , W. W. Jacobs , C. Jena , A. Jentsch , Y. JI , J. Jia , K. Jiang , S. Jowzaee , X. Ju , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , M. L. Kabir , S. Kagamaster , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , M. Kelsey , Y. V. Khyzhniak , D. P. Kikoła , C. Kim , B. Kimelman , D. Kincses , T. A. Kinghorn , I. Kisel , A. Kiselev , A. Kisiel , M. Kocan , L. Kochenda , L. K. Kosarzewski , L. Kramarik , P. Kravtsov , K. Krueger , N. Kulathunga Mudiyanselage , L. Kumar , R. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , J. H. Kwasizur , R. Lacey , S. Lan , J. M. Landgraf , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , Y. H. Leung , C. Li , W. Li , W. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , Y. Liang , R. Licenik , T. Lin , Y. Lin , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , H. Liu , P. Liu , P. Liu , T. Liu , X. Liu , Y. Liu , Z. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , R. S. Longacre , N. S. Lukow , S. Luo , X. Luo , G. L. Ma , L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Majka , D. Mallick , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. S. Matis , J. A. Mazer , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , B. Mohanty , I. Mooney , Z. Moravcova , D. A. Morozov , M. Nagy , J. D. Nam , Md. Nasim , K. Nayak , D. Neff , J. M. Nelson , D. B. Nemes , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , L. V. Nogach , T. Nonaka , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , S. Oh , V. A. Okorokov , B. S. Page , R. Pak , A. Pandav , Y. Panebratsev , B. Pawlik , D. Pawlowska , H. Pei , C. Perkins , L. Pinsky , R. L. Pintér , J. Pluta , J. Porter , M. Posik , N. K. Pruthi , M. Przybycien , J. Putschke , H. Qiu , A. Quintero , S. K. Radhakrishnan , S. Ramachandran , R. L. Ray , R. Reed , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , N. R. Sahoo , H. Sako , S. Salur , J. Sandweiss , S. Sato , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , B. R. Schweid , F. Seck , J. Seger , M. Sergeeva , R. Seto , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , M. Shao , F. Shen , W. Q. Shen , S. S. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , R. Sikora , M. Simko , J. Singh , S. Singha , N. Smirnov , W. Solyst , P. Sorensen , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , M. Stefaniak , D. J. Stewart , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , A. A. P. Suaide , M. Sumbera , B. Summa , X. M. Sun , Y. Sun , Y. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , P. Szymanski , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , A. Taranenko , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , M. Tokarev , C. A. Tomkiel , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , S. K. Tripathy , O. D. Tsai , Z. Tu , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , J. Vanek , A. N. Vasiliev , I. Vassiliev , F. Videbæk , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , F. Wang , G. Wang , J. S. Wang , P. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Z. Wang , J. C. Webb , P. C. Weidenkaff , L. Wen , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , Y. Wu , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , H. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , Y. F. Xu , Y. Xu , Z. Xu , Z. Xu , C. Yang , Q. Yang , S. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , K. Yip , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , D. Zhang , S. Zhang , S. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. J. Zhang , Z. Zhang , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , C. Zhou , X. Zhu , Z. Zhu , M. Zurek , M. Zyzak

UrQMD Simulations of Higher-order Cumulants in Au+Au Collisions at High Baryon Density

High moments of conserved quantities such as net-baryon, net-electric charge, and net-strangeness in heavy-ion collisions are sensitive to fluctuations caused by the QCD critical point (CP). The event-by-event analysis of high moments of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-11-06 Xin Zhang , Yu Zhang , Xiaofeng Luo , Nu Xu

Recent results on event-by-event fluctuations from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan program in the STAR experiment

Event-by-event fluctuations of global observables in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are studied as probes for the QCD phase transition and as tools to search for critical phenomena near the phase boundary. Dynamical fluctuations in mean…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-22 Nihar Ranjan Sahoo

STAR measurement of system size and incident energy dependence of pt correlations at RHIC

We present the results on measurement of event-by-event pt fluctuations and correlations for Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt{sNN} = 62.4 and 200 GeV from STAR experiment at RHIC. These results are compared with those from Au+Au collisions at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-06-24 Lokesh Kumar

Beam-Energy and System-Size Dependence of Dynamical Net Charge Fluctuations

We present measurements of net charge fluctuations in $Au + Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = $ 19.6, 62.4, 130, and 200 GeV, $Cu + Cu$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = $ 62.4, 200 GeV, and $p + p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = $ 200 GeV using…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Monika Sharma

Directed flow in Au+Au collisions from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan at the STAR experiment

We report results of $v_1(y)$ and $dv_1/dy$ near mid-rapidity for $\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$, $K_s^0$, $p$, $\overline{p}$, $\Lambda$, $\overline{\Lambda}$ and $\phi$ from Beam Energy Scan Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = $ 7.7 - 200 GeV…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-01-01 Subhash Singha

Event by Event Net Charge Fluctuations

We present analyses of event-by-event dynamical net charge fluctuations measured in 130 and 200 GeV Au Au collisions with the STAR detector. The dynamical net charge fluctuations are evaluated using the $\nu_{+-,dyn}$ observable. Dynamical…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-01-05 Claude A. Pruneau