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The analysis of the statistical and dynamical fluctuations in nucleus-nucleus collisions on an event-by-event basis strongly relies on a comparison with specially constructed artificial events where statistical fluctuations and kinematical…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Grazyna Odyniec

We discuss opportunities that may arise from subjecting high-multiplicity events in relativistic heavy ion collisions to an analysis similar to the one used in cosmology for the study of fluctuations of the Cosmic Microwave Background…

The Fourier analysis of the final particle distribution followed by cumulant study of the Fourier coefficient event-by-event fluctuation is one of the main approaches for testing the collective evolution in the heavy-ion collision. Using a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-15 Seyed Farid Taghavi

Predictions on fluctuations of hadron production properties in central heavy ion collisions are presented. They are based on the Statistical Model of the Early Stage and extend previously published results by considering the strongly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-21 R. V. Poberezhnyuk , M. I. Gorenstein , M. Gazdzicki

Bulk fluctuations of conserved charges measured by event-by-event analysis in relativistic heavy ion collisions are observables which are believed to carry significant amount of information on the hot medium created by the collisions.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Masayuki Asakawa , Masakiyo Kitazawa

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the event-by-event mean transverse momentum fluctuations are sensitive to overlap area and energy density fluctuations in initial state. We present a framework to calculate $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ fluctuations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-01 Somadutta Bhatta , Chunjian Zhang , Jiangyong Jia

Large density fluctuations of conserved charges have been proposed as a promising signature for exploring the QCD critical point in heavy-ion collisions. These fluctuations are expected to exhibit a fractal or scale-invariant behavior,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-04 Rui Wang , Chengrui Qiu , Chuan-Shen Hu , Zhiming Li , Yuanfang Wu

The sensitivity of flow harmonics from cumulants on the event-by-event flow distribution $p(v_n)$ is investigated using a simple central moment expansion approach. For narrow distribution whose width is much smaller than the mean…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-08-26 Jiangyong Jia , Sooraj Krishnann

Measurements of event-by-event fluctuations of charged-particle multiplicities in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV using the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are presented in the pseudorapidity range…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-04-08 ALICE Collaboration

Event classification by centrality is one of the key tasks of the MPD (Multi-Purpose Detector) experiment at the NICA collider. Centrality characterizes the initial geometry of heavy-ion collisions through the correlation of measured…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-26 D. Idrisov , F. Guber , N. Karpushkin , P. Parfenov

Event-by-event fluctuations of multiplicity and transverse momentum of charged hadrons produced in heavy-ion collisions at FAIR energies, 10A, 20A, 30A and 40A GeV are studied in the framework of relativistic transport model, URQMD.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-12 Bushra Ali , Shakeel Ahmad , A. Ahmad

We generalize and extend the recently proposed method to account for contributions of system size (or volume/participant) fluctuations to the experimentally measured moments of particle multiplicity distributions. We find that in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-07 Romain Holzmann , Volker Koch , Anar Rustamov , Joachim Stroth

I investigate the volume corrections on cumulants of total charge distributions and net proton distributions. The required volume information is generated by an optical Glauber model. I find that the corrected statistical expectations of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-15 Hao-jie Xu

In this review, we systematically examine the principles and the practices of fluctuations such as the momentum and the charge fluctuations as applied to the heavy ion collisions. Main emphases are: (i) Fluctuations as signals of phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sangyong Jeon , Volker Koch

Centrality determination remains one of the major sources of systematic uncertainty in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collision analyses, especially for probing the nuclear equation of state (EoS) at supra-saturation densities. To…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-29 Xiaoqing Yue , Pengcheng Li , Yongjia Wang , Qingfeng Li , Fuhu Liu

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 the charged particle multiplicity are studied for a wide range of centralities for Au$-$Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV, Pb$-$Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV and 5.02 TeV using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-05 Pritindra Bhowmick , Sadhana Dash , Basanta Nandi , Claude Pruneau

The PHENIX Experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has made measurements of event-by-event fluctuations in the charged particle multiplicity as a function of collision energy, centrality, collision species, and transverse momentum…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeffery T. Mitchell

Event-by-event multiplicity fluctuations in central C+C, S+S, In+In, and Pb+Pb as well as p+p collisions at bombarding energies from 10 to 160 AGeV are studied within the HSD and UrQMD microscopic transport approaches. Our investigation is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. P. Konchakovski , B. Lungwitz , M. I. Gorenstein , E. L. Bratkovskaya

A model for computing the probability density of event-by-event participant center-of-mass rapidity y^{c.m.} is presented. The evaluations of the y^{c.m.} distribution are performed for different collision energies and different…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-19 V. Vovchenko , D. Anchishkin , L. P. Csernai