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The centrality or the number of initial-state sources $V$ of the system produced in heavy ion collision is a concept that is not uniquely defined and subject to significant theoretical and experimental uncertainties. We argue that a more…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Jiangyong Jia , Chunjian Zhang , Jun Xu

Multiplicity distributions of charged particles and their event-by-event fluctuations have been compiled for relativistic heavy-ion collisions from the available experimental data at Brookhaven National Laboratory and CERN and also by the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-06-20 Maitreyee Mukherjee , Sumit Basu , Subikash Choudhury , Tapan K. Nayak

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

To reconstruct the impact parameter distributions from the selected events sample or centrality, which is defined by two-observables, at intermediate energy heavy ion collisions, we extend the approach proposed by Das \textit{et al.} [Phys.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-06 Xiang Chen , Li Li , Ying Cui , Junping Yang , Zhuxia Li , Yingxun Zhang

An investigation of the critical behavior of strongly interacting QCD matter has been performed by analyzing fluctuation observables on event-by-event (ebe) basis measured in high-energy collision experiments. The fluctuation analysis is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-10-11 Ashwini Kumar , Gauri Devi , B. K. Singh , Bushra Ali , Shakeel Ahmad

Two-particle rapidity (or pseudorapidity) correlation function $C(y_1, y_2)$ was used in analysing fluctuation of particle density distribution in rapidity in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. In our research, we argue that for a centrality…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-22 Ronghua He , Jing Qian , Lei Huo

We propose a novel centrality definition-independent method for analyzing higher-order cumulants, specifically addressing the challenge of volume fluctuations that dominate in low-energy heavy-ion collisions. This method reconstructs…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-11-11 Zhaohui Wang , Xiaofeng Luo

We performed systematic studies on the effects of event-by-event efficiency fluctuations on efficiency correction for cumulant analysis in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments. Experimentally, particle efficiencies of events…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-09-11 Shu He , Xiaofeng Luo

We discuss recently measured event-by-event multiplicity fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. It is shown that the non-monotonic behavior of the multiplicity fluctuations as a function of collision centrality can be fully…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Rybczynski , Z. Wlodarczyk

Fluctuations of various observables in heavy-ion collisions at ultra-relativistic energies have been extensively studied as they provide important signals regarding the formation of a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Because of the large number of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-03-23 Maitreyee Mukherjee

An analysis method is proposed to study the forward-backward (FB) multiplicity fluctuation in high-energy nuclear collisions, built on the earlier work of Bzdak and Teaney. The method allows the decomposition of the centrality dependence of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-27 Jiangyong Jia , Sooraj Radhakrishnan , Mingliang Zhou

The nucleus-nucleus impact parameter and collision geometry of a heavy ion collision are typically characterized by assigning a collision "centrality". In all present heavy ion experiments centrality is measured indirectly, by detecting the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-19 Sourav Tarafdar , Zvi Citron , Alexander Milov

A collision between a proton and a heavy nucleus at ultrarelativistic energy creates particles whose rapidity distribution is asymmetric, with more particles emitted in the direction of the nucleus than in the direction of the proton. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-23 Rupam Samanta , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Multiplicity distributions and event-by-event multiplicity fluctuations in AuAu collisions at energies in future heavy-ion experiment at the Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (FAIR) are investigated. Events corresponding to FAIR…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-05-31 Anuj Chandra , Bushra Ali , Shakeel Ahmad

In the framework of the Glauber approach we analyze the shape parameters of the early-formed system and their event-by-event fluctuations. We test a variety of models: the conventional wounded nucleon model, a model admixing binary…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Wojciech Broniowski , Piotr Bozek , Maciej Rybczynski

Since their discovery, fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions have been understood as originating mostly from the random positions of nucleons within the colliding nuclei. We consider an alternative approach where all the…

The centrality and system size dependence of multiplicity fluctuations of charged particles produced in nuclear collisions at $158 A$ GeV was studied by the NA49 collaboration. Centrality selected Pb+Pb collisions, semi-central C+C and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-03-03 NA49 Collaboration

We model effects of color fluctuations (CFs) in the light-cone photon wave function and for the first time make predictions for the distribution over the number of wounded nucleons $\nu$ in the inelastic photon-nucleus scattering. We show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-16 M. Alvioli , L. Frankfurt , V. Guzey , M. Strikman , M. Zhalov

A class of simple superposition models based on the Glauber picture of multiple collisions is compared with the data on the centrality dependence of the multiplicity distributions in a central rapidity bin. We show how the results depend on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 K. Fialkowski , R. Wit

I review recent measurements of a large set of flow observables associated with event-shape fluctuations and collective expansion in heavy ion collisions. First, these flow observables are classified and experiment methods are introduced.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-22 Jiangyong Jia
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