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Event-by-event fluctuations of the average transverse momentum of produced particles near mid-rapidity have been measured by the PHENIX Collaboration in sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV Au+Au and p+p collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 the PHENIX Collaboration , S. S. Adler

We review recent results of net-proton multiplicity fluctuations from STAR experiment, aiming to locate the QCD critical point in high-energy nuclear collisions at RHIC. We show net-proton number cumulant and proton number factorial…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-04-15 Yu Zhang , Zhaohui Wang , Xiaofeng Luo , Nu Xu

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

We calculate the first four moments of baryon number, electric charge and strangeness fluctuations within the hadron resonance gas model. Different moments and their ratios as well as skewness and kurtosis are evaluated on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-27 Frithjof Karsch , Krzysztof Redlich

With the highly anticipated results from the Beam Energy Scan II program at RHIC being recently revealed, an understanding of particle-number fluctuations and their significance as a potential signature of a possible QCD critical point is…

We report high-statistics measurements of fifth- and sixth-order factorial cumulants and cumulant ratios of (net-)proton multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 7.7$--27 GeV, using data from the STAR experiment…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-12-23 The STAR Collaboration

New measurements of short-range and long-range two-particle correlations, azimuthal anisotropy, and event-by-event fluctuations from the STAR experiment for sqrt{s_{NN}}= 130 and 200 GeV Au+Au collisions are summarized. Striking evidence is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 R. L. Ray

A study of the first four moments (mean, variance, skewness, and kurtosis) and their products ($\kappa\sigma^{2}$ and $S\sigma$) of the net-charge and net-proton distributions in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{\rm s_{NN}}$ = 7.7-200 GeV from…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-11 Terence J. Tarnowsky , Gary D. Westfall

We present various order moments (Variance ($\sigma^2$), Skewness($S$), Kurtosis($\kappa$)) of net-proton multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions from the first phase of RHIC beam energy scan ({\sNN}=7.7$-$200 GeV). The measurements…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Xiaofeng Luo

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

We present the energy dependence of moments of net-proton and net-charge multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions measured by the STAR experiment in the first phase of the Beam Energy Scan (BES) at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-23 Xiaofeng Luo

In this paper, we investigate the non-critical fluctuations of (net) charges and (net) protons in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 7.7, 39 and 200 GeV, using iEBE-VISHNU hybrid model with Poisson fluctuations added in the particle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-24 Jixing Li , Hao-jie Xu , Huichao 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 2014-11-21 Christiana Athanasiou , Krishna Rajagopal , Misha Stephanov

Local density fluctuations near the QCD critical point can be probed by intermittency analysis of scaled factorial moments in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We report the first measurement of intermittency for charged particles in Au +…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-08-12 Jin Wu

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

Light nuclei production is expected to be sensitive to baryon density fluctuations and can be used to probe the signatures of QCD critical point and/or a first-order phase transition in heavy-ion collisions. In this proceedings, we present…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-09-15 Hui Liu

We explore a hadron resonance gas model using Tsallis non-extensive distribution to study the energy dependence of the product of the moments, $S\sigma$ and $\kappa\sigma^2$ of net-proton multiplicity distributions of published STAR data in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-08-24 D. K. Mishra , P. Garg , P. K. Netrakanti , A. K. Mohanty

In part to search for a possible critical point (CP) in the phase diagram of hot nuclear matter, a Beam Energy Scan was performed at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The STAR experiment collected…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Daniel McDonald

Dynamic fluctuations in the local density of non-identified hadron tracks reconstructed in the STAR TPC are studied using the discrete wavelet transform power spectrum technique which involves mixed event reference sample comparison. The…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 Mikhail L. Kopytine

It is crucially important to find an observable which is independent on the acceptance and late collision process, in order to search for the possible Critical Point predicted by QCD. By utilizing A Multi-Phase Transport (AMPT) model and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-08-26 Y. Zhou , S. S. Shi , K. Xiao , K. J. Wu , F. Liu