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A brief overview of the recent developments concerning theoretical description of event-by-event fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions is presented, with an emphasis on the role of exact conservation laws and calculations based on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-07 Volodymyr Vovchenko

We study event-by-event dynamical fluctuations of various particle ratios at different energies. We assume that particle production in final state is due to chemical equilibrium processes. We compare results from resonance gas model with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-10 A. Tawfik

The event-to-event fluctuations of hadron multiplicities are studied for a quark system undergoing second-order phase transition to hadrons. Emphasis is placed on the search for an observable signature that is realistic for heavy-ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Rudolph C. Hwa , Qing-hui Zhang

We propose to characterize heavy-ion collisions at ultra-relativistic energies by using fluctuations of energy density and temperature. Temperature fluctuations on an event-by-event basis have been studied both in terms of global…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-09-08 Sumit Basu , Rupa Chatterjee , Bastanta K. Nandi , Tapan K. Nayak

Hadron spectra and elliptic flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are studied in event-by-event (3+1)D ideal hydrodynamic simulations with fluctuating initial conditions given by the AMPT Monte Carlo model. Both the coherent soft gluon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Longgang Pang , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

We develop the event-by-event picture of the gluon distribution produced via medium-induced gluon branching by an energetic jet which propagates through a dense QCD medium. A typical event is characterized by the production of a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-25 Miguel A. Escobedo , Edmond Iancu

Collective spin phenomena in the final states of heavy-ion collisions are typically understood to originate from vorticity and shear in the quark-gluon plasma. Here, we ask whether spin could already be present in the initial condition of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-01 Giuliano Giacalone , Enrico Speranza

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

The exploration of the rich dynamics of electrons is a frontier in fundamental nano-physics. The dynamical behavior of electrons is dominated by random and chaotic thermal motion with ultrafast ($\approx$ ps) and nanoscale scatterings. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Ruijie Qian , S. T. Chui , Zhenghua An , y Hongtao Xu , Zhifang Lin , Zian Ji , Wei Lu

The event-by-event analysis of heavy ions collisions is becoming possible with advent of large acceptance detectors: it can provide dynamical information which cannot be obtained from inclusive spectra. We identify some observables which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 E. V. Shuryak

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

The size of the average fluctuations of net baryon number and electric charge in a finite volume of hadronic matter differs widely between the confined and deconfined phases. These differences may be exploited as indicators of the formation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-09 Masayuki Asakawa , Ulrich Heinz , Berndt Muller

We study the effect of small random advection in two models in turbulent combustion. Assuming that the velocity field decorrelates sufficiently fast, we (i) identify the order of the fluctuations of the front with respect to the size of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Christopher Henderson , Panagiotis E. Souganidis

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

In the transition from nuclear matter to finite nuclei, complex finite-size effects which characterise open systems arise, in relation with either the nuclear surface or the bulk. In addition, the non-equilibrium character of the process,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-28 P. Napolitani , H. Dinh Viet , M. Colonna

Study of event by event fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities offer us more insight about the hot and dense matter created in the relativistic heavy ion collisions. In this review the recent results on these studies carried out by the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Supriya Das

We discuss recent progress towards developing accurate initial state descriptions for heavy ion collisions focusing on weak coupling based approaches, that enable one to constrain the high-energy structure of nuclei from deep inelastic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Heikki Mäntysaari

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

Observing finite regions of a bigger system is a common experience, from microscopy to molecular simulations. In the latter especially, there is ongoing interest in predicting thermodynamic properties from tracking fluctuations in finite…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-08 Thê Hoang Ngoc Minh , Benjamin Rotenberg , Sophie Marbach

Quantum fluctuations plays an essential role in forming the collective flow of hadrons observed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Event-by-event fluctuations of the collective flow can arise from various sources, such as the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-09 Xinrong Chen , Xiang-Yu Wu , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin