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For the discovery of the QCD critical point it is crucial to develop dynamical models of the fluctuations of the net-baryon number that can be embedded in simulations of heavy-ion collisions. In this proceeding, we study the dynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Masakiyo Kitazawa , Grégoire Pihan , Nathan Touroux , Marcus Bluhm , Marlene Nahrgang

The experimental search for the QCD critical point by means of relativistic heavy-ion collisions necessitates the development of dynamical models of fluctuations. In this work we study the fluctuations of the net-baryon density near the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-25 Marlene Nahrgang , Marcus Bluhm

A quantitatively reliable theoretical description of the dynamics of fluctuations in non-equilibrium is indispensable in the experimental search for the QCD critical point by means of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this work we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Marlene Nahrgang , Marcus Bluhm , Thomas Schaefer , Steffen A. Bass

The dynamic separation into phases of high and low baryon density in a heavy ion collision can enhance fluctuations of the net rapidity density of baryons compared to model expectations. We show how these fluctuations arise and how they can…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sean Gavin

We study the impact of the competition between the expansion of the medium created in heavy-ion collisions and its diffusive properties on the critical fluctuations of the net-baryon density. As the relaxation time of the fluctuations is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-30 Grégoire Pihan , Marcus Bluhm , Masakiyo Kitazawa , Marlene Nahrgang

Critical phenomena in phase transitions of strongly interacting matter, governed by quantum chromodynamics, are inherently encoded in the fluctuations of conserved charges. In this work, we study the net-baryon number density fluctuations,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-16 Michał Marczenko

The non-Gaussian fluctuations of baryon density are sensitive to the presence of the conjectured QCD critical point. Their observational consequences are crucial for the ongoing experimental search for this critical point through the beam…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Noriyuki Sogabe , Yi Yin

We study time evolution of critical fluctuations of conserved charges near the QCD critical point in the context of relativistic heavy ion collisions. A stochastic diffusion equation is employed in order to describe the diffusion property…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-21 Miki Sakaida , Masayuki Asakawa , Hirotsugu Fujii , Masakiyo Kitazawa

Multiplicity fluctuations are one of the most crucial observables in the Beam Energy Scan program of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. It is understood that they can be utilized to probe the whereabouts of the critical point on the phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-12 Hong-Hao Ma , Dan Wen , Kai Lin , Wei-Liang Qian , Bin Wang , Yogiro Hama , Takeshi Kodama

The dynamic separation into phases of high and low baryon density in a heavy ion collision can enhance fluctuations of the net rapidity density of baryons compared to model expectations. We demonstrate that event-by-event proton and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 David Bower , Sean Gavin

We develop a dynamical model to describe critical fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions, incorporating the baryon diffusion current and chiral condensate as dynamical degrees of freedom, to address their nontrivial scale separation. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-26 Azumi Sakai , Koichi Murase , Hirotsugu Fujii , Tetsufumi Hirano

In this work we study the consequences of a longitudinal Bjorken expansion and a Hubble-like temperature cooling scenario on a 1+1D non-linear model of the diffusive dynamics of fluctuations in the net-baryon density. The equilibrium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-01 Grégoire Pihan , Marcus Bluhm , Masakiyo Kitazawa , Taklit Sami , Marlene Nahrgang

We investigate the role of a finite surface tension during the time-evolution of fluctuations in the net-baryon density. The systems in this study undergo a temperature evolution across the phase transition in the critical region of the QCD…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-21 Marcus Bluhm , Marlene Nahrgang

Event-by-event fluctuations of the baryon number, which is mostly carried by protons and neutrons, in relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide a sensitive probe for locating the conjectured critical point in the quantum chromodynamics…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-24 Yi-Heng Feng , Che Ming Ko , Xiaofeng Luo , Yu-Gang Ma , Kai-Jia Sun , Song Zhang

Fluctuations and correlations of the net-baryon number play an important role in exploring critical phenomena in phase transitions of strongly interacting matter governed by Quantum chromodynamics (QCD). In this work, we use the parity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-31 Volker Koch , Michał Marczenko , Krzysztof Redlich , Chihiro Sasaki

The region of large net-baryon densities in the QCD phase diagram is expected to exhibit a first-order phase transition. Experimentally, its study will be one of the primaryobjectives for the upcoming FAIR accelerator. We model the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Christoph Herold , Marlene Nahrgang , Yupeng Yan , Chinorat Kobdaj

Fluctuations of conserved charges are sensitive to the QCD phase transition and a possible critical endpoint in the phase diagram at finite density. In this work, we compute the baryon number fluctuations up to tenth order at finite…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-01 Wei-jie Fu , Xiaofeng Luo , Jan M. Pawlowski , Fabian Rennecke , Rui Wen , Shi Yin

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

Higher moments of net-proton Binder ratio, which is suggested to be a good experimental measurement to locate the QCD critical point, is measured in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We firstly estimate the effect of statistical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Zhiming Li , Fengbo Xiong , Yuanfang Wu

We propose that dramatic changes in the variances and covariance of protons and antiprotons can result if baryons approach chemical equilibrium in nuclear collisions at RHIC. To explore how equilibration alters these fluctuations, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sean Gavin , Claude Pruneau
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