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Fluctuations of conserved quantities, such as baryon, electric charge and strangeness number, are sensitive observables in relativistic heavy-ion collisions to probe the QCD phase transition and search for the QCD critical point. In this…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-01-10 Xiaofeng Luo , Nu Xu

We present a determination of freeze-out conditions in heavy-ion collisions based on ratios of cu- mulants of net electric charge fluctuations obtained from lattice QCD. These ratios can reliably be calculated for a wide range of chemical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-05-01 Mathias Wagner

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 demonstrate that event-by-event proton and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 David Bower , Sean Gavin

This work presents an analysis of event-by-event multiplicity fluctuations as a sensitive tool for diagnosing the state of matter produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Using a modified version of the HIJING Monte Carlo generator,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-12 Y. A. Rusak , L. F. Babichev

Event-by-event fluctuations of conserved charges - such as electric charge, strangeness, and baryon number - in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions provide insight into the properties of the quark-gluon plasma and the QCD phase diagram.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-02-20 Alice Ohlson

The description of dynamical fluctuations near the QCD critical point in heavy-ion collisions is crucial for understanding the existing and upcoming experimental data from the beam energy scan programs. In this talk we discuss the evolution…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-10 Marlene Nahrgang , Marcus Bluhm , Thomas Schaefer , Steffen A. Bass

For the discovery of the QCD critical point it is crucial to develop dynamical models of the fluctuations of the net-baryon number that can be embedded in simulations of heavy-ion collisions. In this proceeding, we study the dynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Masakiyo Kitazawa , Grégoire Pihan , Nathan Touroux , Marcus Bluhm , Marlene Nahrgang

The Phi-measure of event-by-event fluctuations in high-energy heavy-ion collisions corresponds to the second moment of the fluctuating quantity distribution of interest. It is shown that the measure based on the third moment preserves the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

High moments of multiplicity distributions of conserved quantities are predicted to be sensitive to critical fluctuations. To understand the effect of the complicated non-critical physics backgrounds on the proposed observable, we have…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-11-28 X. F. Luo , B. Mohanty , H. G. Ritter , N. Xu

The moments and moment products of conserved charges are believed to be sensitive to critical fluctuations, which have been adopted in determining the QCD critical point. Using a dynamical multiphase transport model, we reproduce the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-21 Ling Huang , Guo-Liang Ma

Fluctuations in the statistical model of heavy ion collisions are studied. The role of statistics, relativity, constraints, decaying resonances and branching processes are investigated using this model. Also studied are thermodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Aram Z. Mekjian

One of the ultimate goals of nuclear collision experiments at high energy is to map the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter. A very challenging task is the determination of the QCD phase structure including the search for critical…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-02-03 Anar Rustamov

We study statistics dependence of the probability distributions and the means of measured moments of conserved quantities, respectively. The required statistics of all interested moments and their products are estimated based on a simple…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Lizhu Chen , Zhiming Li , Xia Zhong , Yuncun He , Yuanfang Wu

Comparing quantities to analyze charged fluctuations in heavy ion experiments the dispersion of the charges in a central rapidity box was found to be best suited. Various energies and different nuclear sizes are considered in an explicit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Fritz W. Bopp , Johannes Ranft

The exploration of the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram is a central goal of relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments. This review focuses on the role of fluctuations and correlations as sensitive probes of the phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-05 Volker Koch , Volodymyr Vovchenko

The event-by-event analysis of high energy nuclear collisions aims at revealing the richness of the underlying event structures and provide unique measures of dynamical fluctuations associated with QGP phase transition. The major challenge…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Tapan K. Nayak

Higher moments of event-by-event net-proton multiplicity distributions are applied to search for the QCD critical point in the heavy ion collisions. It has been demonstrated that higher moments as well as moment products are sensitive to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-11-28 Xiaofeng Luo

We have studied the effect of limited statistics of data on measurement of the different order of cumulants of net-proton distribution assuming that the proton and antiproton distributions follow Possionian and Binomial distributions with…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-10-02 Ashish Pandav , Debasish Mallick , Bedangadas Mohanty

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

Recent work has provided the means to rigorously determine properties of super-hadronic matter from experimental data through the application of broad scale modeling of high-energy nuclear collisions within a Bayesian framework. These…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Evan Sangaline , Scott Pratt