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Poisson baseline of net-charge fluctuations in the relativistic heavy ion collisions

Taking doubly charged particles, positive-negative charge pair production and the effects of volume fluctuations into account, the Poisson baseline of the fluctuations of net-charge is studied. Within the Poisson baseline, the cumulants of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-05 Xue Pan , Yufu Lin , Lizhu Chen , Mingmei Xu , Yuanfang Wu

Energy Dependence of Moments of Net-Proton, Net-Kaon, and Net-Charge Multiplicity Distributions at STAR

One of the main goals of the RHIC Beam Energy Scan (BES) program is to study the QCD phase structure, which includes the search for the QCD critical point, over a wide range of chemical potential. Theoretical calculations predict that…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-23 Ji Xu

Resonances and fluctuations of strange particle in 200 GeV Au-Au collisions

We perform an analysis of preliminary data on strange particles yields and fluctuations within the Statistical hadronization model. We begin by describing the theoretical disagreements between different statistical models currently on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Giorgio Torrieri

Fluctuations and correlations of conserved charges in an excluded volume hadron resonance gas model

We present temperature ($T$) and baryonic chemical potential ($\mu_B$) dependence of higher order fluctuations and correlation between conserved charges in Excluded Volume Hadron Resonance Gas (EVHRG) model. Products of moments, such as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Supriya Das , Sanjay K. Ghosh , Rajarshi Ray , Subhasis Samanta

Modeling net-charge fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC

The analysis of Pb+Pb data for net-charge fluctuations at LHC energies within the HYDJET++ model is presented. The strongly intensive quantities $D$ and $\Sigma$ are used to get rid of the effects related to volume fluctuations of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-07 G. O. Ambaryan , A. S. Chernyshov , G. Kh. Eyyubova , V. L. Korotkikh , I. P. Lokhtin , S. V. Petrushanko , A. M. Snigirev , E. E. Zabrodin

Identified charged hadron production in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 54.4 GeV with the STAR detector

We present results on the production of $\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$, $p$, and $\bar{p}$ in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 54.4~GeV using the STAR detector at RHIC, at midrapidity ($|y| <$ 0.1). Invariant yields of these particles…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-05-22 STAR Collaboration , B. E. Aboona , J. Adam , G. Agakishiev , I. Aggarwal , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , A. Aitbayev , I. Alekseev , E. Alpatov , A. K. Alshammri , A. Aparin , S. Aslam , J. Atchison , G. S. Averichev , V. Bairathi , X. Bao , P. Barik , K. Barish , S. Behera , P. Bhagat , A. Bhasin , S. Bhatta , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. D. Brandenburg , A. V. Brandin , C. Broodo , X. Z. Cai , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , D. Cebra , J. Ceska , I. Chakaberia , Y. S. Chang , Z. Chang , A. Chatterjee , D. Chen , J. H. Chen , L. Chen , Q. Chen , W. Chen , Z. Chen , J. Cheng , Y. Cheng , W. Christie , X. Chu , S. Corey , H. J. Crawford , G. Dale-Gau , A. Das , D. De Souza Lemos , T. G. Dedovich , I. M. Deppner , A. A. Derevschikov , A. Deshpande , A. Dhamija , A. Dimri , P. Dixit , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , E. Duckworth , J. C. Dunlop , Y. S. El-Feky , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , O. Eyser , B. Fan , Y. Fang , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , H. Feng , Y. Feng , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , F. A. Flor , B. Fu , C. Fu , T. Fu , T. Gao , Y. Gao , G. Garcia , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , A. Giri , K. Gopal , X. Gou , D. Grosnick , A. Gu , J. Gu , A. Gupta , A. Hamed , R. J. Hamilton , J. Han , X. Han , M. D. Harasty , J. W. Harris , H. Harrison-Smith , L. B. Havener , X. H. He , Y. He , C. Hu , Q. Hu , Y. Hu , H. Huang , H. Z. Huang , S. L. Huang , T. Huang , Y. Huang , Y. Huang , Y. Huang , M. Isshiki , W. W. Jacobs , A. Jalotra , C. Jena , Y. Ji , J. Jia , X. Jiang , C. Jin , Y. Jin , N. Jindal , X. Ju , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , J. Kang , K. Kang , A. R. Kanuganti , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , M. Kesler , A. Khanal , A. Khanal , J. Kim , A. Kiselev , A. G. Knospe , L. Kochenda , Y. Kong , A. A. Korobitsin , B. Korodi , A. Yu. Kraeva , P. Kravtsov , L. Kumar , M. C. Labonte , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , C. Larson , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , Y. H. Leung , C. Li , D. Li , H-S. Li , H. Li , H. Li , H. Li , W. Li , X. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , Z. Li , Z. Li , X. Liang , T. Lin , Y. Lin , C. Liu , G. Liu , H. Liu , L. Liu , L. Liu , Z. Liu , Z. Liu , T. Ljubicic , O. Lomicky , E. M. Loyd , T. Lu , J. Luo , X. F. Luo , V. B. Luong , L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Manikandhan , O. Matonoha , K. Menduli , K. Mi , N. G. Minaev , B. Mohanty , B. Mondal , M. M. Mondal , I. Mooney , D. A. Morozov , M. I. Nagy , C. J. Naim , A. S. Nain , J. D. Nam , M. Nasim , H. Nasrulloh , E. Nedorezov , J. M. Nelson , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , L. V. Nogach , T. Nonaka , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , S. Oh , V. A. Okorokov , K. Okubo , B. S. Page , M. Pal , S. Pal , A. Pandav , A. Panday , A. K. Pandey , Y. Panebratsev , T. Pani , P. Parfenov , A. Paul , S. Paul , C. Perkins , S. Ping , I. D. Ponce Pinto , M. Posik , E. Pottebaum , A. Povarov , S. Prodhan , T. L. Protzman , N. K. Pruthi , J. Putschke , Y. Qi , Z. Qin , H. Qiu , C. Racz , S. K. Radhakrishnan , A. Rana , R. L. Ray , C. W. Robertson , O. V. Rogachevsky , M. A. Rosales Aguilar , D. Roy , L. Ruan , A. K. Sahoo , N. R. Sahoo , H. Sako , S. Salur , S. S. Sambyal , E. Samigullin , D. T. Samuel , J. K. Sandhu , S. Sato , B. C. Schaefer , N. Schmitz , J. Seger , R. Seto , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , T. Shao , M. Sharma , N. Sharma , R. Sharma , S. R. Sharma , A. I. Sheikh , D. Shen , D. Y. Shen , K. Shen , S. Shi , Y. Shi , Shilpa , E. Shulga , F. Si , J. Singh , S. Singha , P. Sinha , M. J. Skoby , Y. Söhngen , Y. Song , T. D. S. Stanislaus , M. Strikhanov , Y. Su , X. Sun , Y. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , Z. W. Sweger , A. C. Tamis , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , A. Taranenko , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , A. Timofeev , D. Tlusty , M. V. Tokarev , D. Torres-Valladares , S. Trentalange , O. D. Tsai , C. Y. Tsang , Z. Tu , J. E. Tyler , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , G. Van Buren , A. N. Vasiliev , F. Videbæk , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , F. Wang , G. Wang , G. Wang , J. S. Wang , J. Wang , K. Wang , X. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Z. Wang , Z. Wang , Z. Wang , J. C. Webb , P. C. Weidenkaff , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , G. Wilks , S. W. Wissink , C. P. Wong , J. Wu , X. Wu , X. Wu , X. Wu , B. Xi , Y. Xiao , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , H. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , X. Xu , Y. Xu , Y. Xu , Y. Xu , Y. Xu , Z. Xu , Z. Xu , G. Yan , Z. Yan , C. Yang , Q. Yang , S. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , Y. Yu , W. Yuan , W. Zha , C. Zhang , D. Zhang , J. Zhang , K. Zhang , L. Zhang , S. Zhang , W. Zhang , X. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Zhang , F. Zhao , J. Zhao , S. Zhou , Y. Zhou , C. Zhu , X. Zhu , M. Zurek , M. Zyzak

Event-by-event fluctuations in p+p and central A+A collisions within relativistic transport models

Event-by-event multiplicity fluctuations in nucleus-nucleus collisions are studied within the relativistic transport models: EPOS, PHSD, and UrQMD. As measures of particle number fluctuations we consider the scaled variances $\omega[X]$ for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-04 Anton Motornenko , Katarzyna Grebieszkow , Elena Bratkovskaya , Mark I. Gorenstein , Marcus Bleicher , Klaus Werner

Energy, Rapidity and Transverse Momentum Dependence of Multiplicity Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions at CERN SPS

Multiplicity fluctuations in the forward hemisphere were studied for positively, negatively and all charged hadrons produced in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A, 30A, 40A, 80A and 158A GeV. The multiplicity distributions and their scaled…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Benjamin Lungwitz

Fluctuations and Correlations of net baryon number, electric charge, and strangeness: A comparison of lattice QCD results with the hadron resonance gas model

We calculate the quadratic fluctuations of net baryon number, electric charge and strangeness as well as correlations among these conserved charges in (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD at zero chemical potential. Results are obtained using…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-05-30 A. Bazavov , Tanmoy Bhattacharya , C. E. DeTar , H. -T. Ding , Steven Gottlieb , Rajan Gupta , P. Hegde , Urs Heller , F. Karsch , E. Laermann , L. Levkova , Swagato Mukherjee , P. Petreczky , Christian Schmidt , R. A. Soltz , W. Soeldner , R. Sugar , Pavlos M. Vranas

Measurements of higher-order cumulants of multiplicity and net-electric charge distributions in inelastic proton-proton interactions by NA61/SHINE

This paper presents the energy dependence of multiplicity and net-electric charge fluctuations in p+p interactions at beam momenta 20, 31, 40, 80, and 158 GeV/c. Results are corrected for the experimental biases and quantified with the use…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-03-18 NA61/SHINE , : , H. Adhikary , P. Adrich , K. K. Allison , N. Amin , E. V. Andronov , I. -C. Arsene , M. Bajda , Y. Balkova , D. Battaglia , A. Bazgir , S. Bhosale , M. Bielewicz , A. Blondel , M. Bogomilov , Y. Bondar , A. Borucka , A. Brandin , W. Bryliński , J. Brzychczyk , M. Buryakov , A. F. Camino , M. Ćirković , M. Csanád , J. Cybowska , T. Czopowicz , C. Dalmazzone , N. Davis , A. Dmitriev , P. von Doetinchem , W. Dominik , J. Dumarchez , R. Engel , G. A. Feofilov , L. Fields , Z. Fodor , M. Friend , M. Gaździcki , O. Golosov , V. Golovatyuk , M. Golubeva , K. Grebieszkow , F. Guber , S. N. Igolkin , S. Ilieva , A. Ivashkin , A. Izvestnyy , N. Kargin , N. Karpushkin , E. Kashirin , M. Kiełbowicz , V. A. Kireyeu , R. Kolesnikov , D. Kolev , Y. Koshio , V. N. Kovalenko , S. Kowalski , B. Kozłowski , A. Krasnoperov , W. Kucewicz , M. Kuchowicz , M. Kuich , A. Kurepin , A. László , M. Lewicki , G. Lykasov , V. V. Lyubushkin , M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska , Z. Majka , A. Makhnev , B. Maksiak , A. I. Malakhov , A. Marcinek , A. D. Marino , H. -J. Mathes , T. Matulewicz , V. Matveev , G. L. Melkumov , A. Merzlaya , Ł. Mik , S. Morozov , Y. Nagai , T. Nakadaira , M. Naskręt , S. Nishimori , A. Olivier , V. Ozvenchuk , O. Panova , V. Paolone , O. Petukhov , I. Pidhurskyi , R. Płaneta , P. Podlaski , B. A. Popov , B. Pórfy , D. S. Prokhorova , D. Pszczel , S. Puławski , J. Puzović , R. Renfordt , L. Ren , V. Z. Reyna-Ortiz , D. Röhrich , E. Rondio , M. Roth , Ł. Rozpłochowski , B. T. Rumberger , M. Rumyantsev , A. Rustamov , M. Rybczynski , A. Rybicki , D. Rybka , K. Sakashita , K. Schmidt , A. Yu. Seryakov , P. Seyboth , U. A. Shah , Y. Shiraishi , A. Shukla , M. Słodkowski , P. Staszel , G. Stefanek , J. Stepaniak , M. Strikhanov , Ł. Świderski , J. Szewiński , R. Szukiewicz , A. Taranenko , A. Tefelska , D. Tefelski , V. Tereshchenko , R. Tsenov , L. Turko , T. S. Tveter , M. Unger , M. Urbaniak , F. F. Valiev , D. Veberič , V. V. Vechernin , O. Vitiuk , V. Volkov , A. Wickremasinghe , K. Witek , K. Wójcik , O. Wyszyński , A. Zaitsev , E. Zherebtsova , E. D. Zimmerman , A. Zviagina , R. Zwaska

Particle Number Fluctuations in High Energy Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions from Microscopic Transport Approaches

Event-by-event multiplicity fluctuations in nucleus-nucleus collisions are studied within the HSD and UrQMD transport models. The scaled variances of negative, positive, and all charged hadrons in Pb+Pb at 158 AGeV are analyzed in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. P. Konchakovski , S. Haussler , M. I. Gorenstein , E. L. Bratkovskaya , M. Bleicher , H. Stoecker

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

Searching for the Critical Point of QCD: Theoretical Benchmark Calculations

We present a comprehensive study of event-by-event multiplicity fluctuations in nucleon-nucleon and nucleus-nucleus interactions from AGS/FAIR to RHIC energies within the UrQMD transport approach. The scaled variances of negative, positive,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Benjamin Lungwitz , Marcus Bleicher

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 net-baryon fluctuations in ALICE

Recent results on the analysis of event-by-event net-baryon number fluctuations in Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 2.76$ and $5.02$ TeV are presented. The cumulants of the net-proton distributions, proxies for the net-baryon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-02-03 Mesut Arslandok

Predictions for net-proton and net-kaon distributions at LHC energies

We investigate baryon and charge transport in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, compare with Au + Au RHIC data at sqrt(s_NN)=0.2 TeV, and make predictions for net-proton rapidity distributions in central Pb + Pb collisions at CERN LHC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Yacine Mehtar-Tani , Georg Wolschin

Charged-to-neutral correlation at forward rapidity in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV

Event-by-event fluctuations of the ratio of inclusive charged to photon multiplicities at forward rapidity in Au+Au collision at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV have been studied. Dominant contribution to such fluctuations is expected to come from…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-03-25 STAR Collaboration , N. M. Abdelwahab , L. Adamczyk , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , I. Alekseev , J. Alford , C. D. Anson , A. Aparin , D. Arkhipkin , E. C. Aschenauer , G. S. Averichev , A. Banerjee , D. R. Beavis , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , A. K. Bhati , P. Bhattarai , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , W. Borowski , J. Bouchet , A. V. Brandin , S. G. Brovko , S. Bültmann , I. Bunzarov , T. P. Burton , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , J. M. Campbell , D. Cebra , R. Cendejas , M. C. Cervantes , P. Chaloupka , Z. Chang , S. Chattopadhyay , H. F. Chen , J. H. Chen , L. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Cherney , A. Chikanian , W. Christie , J. Chwastowski , M. J. M. Codrington , G. Contin , J. G. Cramer , H. J. Crawford , X. Cui , S. Das , A. Davila Leyva , L. C. De Silva , R. R. Debbe , T. G. Dedovich , J. Deng , A. A. Derevschikov , R. Derradi de Souza , B. di Ruzza , L. Didenko , C. Dilks , F. Ding , P. Djawotho , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. E. Draper , C. M. Du , L. E. Dunkelberger , J. C. Dunlop , L. G. Efimov , J. Engelage , K. S. Engle , G. Eppley , L. Eun , O. Evdokimov , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , J. Fedorisin , P. Filip , Y. Fisyak , C. E. Flores , C. A. Gagliardi , D. R. Gangadharan , D. Garand , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , M. Girard , S. Gliske , L. Greiner , D. Grosnick , D. S. Gunarathne , Y. Guo , A. Gupta , S. Gupta , W. Guryn , B. Haag , A. Hamed , L-X. Han , R. Haque , J. W. Harris , S. Heppelmann , A. Hirsch , G. W. Hoffmann , D. J. Hofman , S. Horvat , B. Huang , H. Z. 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 , A. Kesich , Z. H. Khan , D. P. Kikola , I. Kisel , A. Kisiel , D. D. Koetke , T. Kollegger , J. Konzer , I. Koralt , 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 , C. Li , W. Li , X. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , Z. M. Li , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , M. Lomnitz , R. S. Longacre , X. Luo , G. L. Ma , Y. G. Ma , D. P. Mahapatra , R. Majka , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. Masui , H. S. Matis , D. McDonald , T. S. McShane , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , D. A. Morozov , M. K. Mustafa , B. K. Nandi , Md. Nasim , T. K. Nayak , J. M. Nelson , G. Nigmatkulov , L. V. Nogach , S. Y. Noh , J. Novak , S. B. Nurushev , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , K. Oh , A. Ohlson , V. Okorokov , E. W. Oldag , D. L. Olvitt , B. S. Page , Y. X. Pan , Y. Pandit , Y. Panebratsev , T. Pawlak , B. Pawlik , H. Pei , C. Perkins , P. Pile , M. Planinic , J. Pluta , N. Poljak , K. Poniatowska , J. Porter , A. M. Poskanzer , N. K. Pruthi , M. Przybycien , J. Putschke , H. Qiu , A. Quintero , S. Ramachandran , R. Raniwala , S. Raniwala , R. L. Ray , C. K. Riley , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , J. F. Ross , A. Roy , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , O. Rusnakova , N. R. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , I. Sakrejda , S. Salur , A. Sandacz , J. Sandweiss , E. Sangaline , 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 , B. Sharma , W. Q. Shen , S. S. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , M. Simko , M. J. Skoby , D. Smirnov , N. Smirnov , D. Solanki , P. Sorensen , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , J. R. Stevens , R. Stock , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , M. Sumbera , X. Sun , X. M. Sun , Y. Sun , Z. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , T. J. M. Symons , M. A. Szelezniak , J. Takahashi , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , M. Tokarev , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , B. A. Trzeciak , O. D. Tsai , J. Turnau , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , G. Van Buren , G. van Nieuwenhuizen , M. Vandenbroucke , J. A. Vanfossen, , R. Varma , G. M. S. Vasconcelos , A. N. Vasiliev , R. Vertesi , F. Videbæk , Y. P. Viyogi , S. Vokal , A. Vossen , M. Wada , F. Wang , G. Wang , H. Wang , J. S. Wang , X. L. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , G. Webb , J. C. Webb , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , Y. F. Wu , Z. Xiao , W. Xie , K. Xin , H. Xu , J. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , Y. Xu , Z. Xu , W. Yan , C. Yang , Y. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Ye , P. Yepes , L. Yi , K. Yip , I-K. Yoo , N. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , J. B. Zhang , J. L. Zhang , S. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. P. Zhang , F. Zhao , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , X. Zhu , Y. H. Zhu , Y. Zoulkarneeva , M. Zyzak

Measuring charge fluctuations in high-energy nuclear collisions

Various measures of charge fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions are discussed. Advantages of the Phi-measure are demonstrated and its relation to other fluctuation measures is established. To get the relation, Phi is expressed through the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

Negatively Charged Hadron Spectra in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 130 GeV

Negatively charged hadron (h-) production in Au+Au collisions at BNL-RHIC is studied with the STAR experiment. Results are presented on h- multiplicity, pseudorapidity and transverse momentum distributions at sqrt(s_NN) = 130 GeV.

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 STAR Collaboration , Manuel Calderon de la Barca Sanchez

Search for the QCD Critical Point with Fluctuations of Conserved Quantities in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at RHIC : An Overview

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