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Medium effects on charged-particle production are studied using three analysis techniques. We find angular collinearity and number correlations on $p_t$ at moderate $p_t<3$ GeV/$c$. In this $p_t$ range abundant multiplicities enable…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Mikhail Kopytine

The study of event-by-event fluctuations of identified hadrons may reveal the degrees of freedom of the strongly interacting matter created in heavy-ion collisions and the underlying dynamics of the system. The observable $\nu_{dyn}$, which…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-23 Mesut Arslandok

A great deal of recent data on event-by-event fluctuation and correlation measurements has been released by several experiments at the SPS and RHIC. Recent results on charge fluctuations, balance functions in pseudorapidity, and average…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeffery T. Mitchell

This contribution presents a review of our present theoretical as well as experimental knowledge of different fluctuation observables relevant to nuclear multifragmentation. The possible connection between the presence of a fluctuation peak…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Gulminelli , M. D'Agostino

It has been shown in recent ALICE@LHC measurements that the odd flow harmonics, in particular a directed flow, v1, occurred to be weak and dominated by random fluctuations. In this work we propose a new method, which makes the measurements…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 L. P. Csernai , G. Eyyubova , V. K. Magas

A method based on sliding window scheme is developed to search for patches in the pseudorapidity-azimuth plane, on an event-by-event basis, having unusual fluctuation in the neutral pion fraction which may arise due to the formation of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 M. M. Aggarwal , G. Sood , Y. P. Viyogi

In this work, we present a model-independent method to quantify the non-Gaussian fluctuations in the observable distributions, which are assessed by the difference between the measured observable distributions and reconstructed observable…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-01 Xinyu Wang , Xiang Chen , Junping Yang , Ying Cui , Zhuxia Li , Kai Zhao , Yingxun Zhang

Collision centrality is a key parameter for studying nuclear matter properties, as it determines the initial interaction geometry and the size of the produced system. Accurate centrality determination is essential for comparing experimental…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-26 Dim Idrisov , Fedor Guber , Nikolay Karpushkin , Peter Parfenov

We propose Kolmogorov-Smirnov test as a means for recognising event-by-event fluctuations of rapidity distributions in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Such fluctuations may be induced by the spinodal decomposition of the rapidly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-12-03 B. Tomasik , I. Melo , M. Gintner , S. Korony

We discuss multiplicity fluctuations of charged particles produced in nuclear collisions measured event-by-event by the NA49 experiment at CERN SPS within the Glauber Monte Carlo approach. We use the concepts of wounded nucleons and wounded…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-22 Maksym Deliyergiyev , Maciej Rybczynski

Initial geometrical distribution and fluctuation can affect the collective expansion in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. This effect may be more evident in small system (such as B + B) than in large one (Pb + Pb). This work presents the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-24 S. Zhang , Y. G. Ma , G. L. Ma , J. H. Chen , Q. Y. Shou , W. B. He , C. Zhong

The initial state is one of the greatest uncertainties in heavy-ion collisions. A model-agnostic approach is taken in the phenomenological Trento framework which constrains parameters using Bayesian analysis. However, the color-glass…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-09 Patrick Carzon , Matthew D. Sievert , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

In this paper, a search for power-law fluctuations with fractality and intermittency analysis to explore the QCD phase diagram and the critical point is summarized. Experimental data on self-similar correlations and fluctuations with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Zhiming Li

We study the dependence of the normalized moments of the net-proton multiplicity distributions on the definition of centrality in relativistic nuclear collisions at a beam energy of $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}= 7.7$ GeV. Using the UrQMD model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-25 S. Sombun , J. Steinheimer , C. Herold , A. Limphirat , Y. Yan , M. Bleicher

A new method is presented for determining event-by-event fluctuations of elliptic flow, $v_2$, using first-order event planes. By studying the event-by-event distributions of $v_2$ observables and first-order event-plane observables,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Gang Wang , Declan Keane , Aihong Tang , Sergei A. Voloshin

Some experimental results are discussed in connection with the properties of the central heavy ion collisions. These experiments indicate the regime changes and saturation at some values of the centrality. This phenomenon is considered to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-04-15 Z. Wazir , M. K. Suleymanov , E. U. Khan , Mahnaz Q. Haseeb , M. Ajaz , K. H. Khan

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

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-05-29 The NA49 Collaboration , B. Lungwitz

Sub-nuclear fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions impact not only transverse long-range correlations of small systems, but also the creation of longitudinal structures, seen in particle detectors as longitudinal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-02 Oscar Garcia-Montero , Sören Schlichting , Jie Zhu

We discuss the effects of initial collision geometry and centrality bin definition on correlation and fluctuation observables in nucleus-nucleus collisions. We focus on the forward-backward correlation coefficient recently measured by the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-04-14 V. P. Konchakovski , M. Hauer , G Torrieri , M. I. Gorenstein , E. L. Bratkovskaya

We present the first measurement of fluctuations from event to event in the production of strange particles in collisions of heavy nuclei. The ratio of charged kaons to charged pions is determined for individual central Pb+Pb collisions.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Afanasiev , NA49 collaboration