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UrQMD Simulations of Higher-order Cumulants in Au+Au Collisions at High Baryon Density

High moments of conserved quantities such as net-baryon, net-electric charge, and net-strangeness in heavy-ion collisions are sensitive to fluctuations caused by the QCD critical point (CP). The event-by-event analysis of high moments of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-11-06 Xin Zhang , Yu Zhang , Xiaofeng Luo , Nu Xu

Intermittency analysis in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Local density fluctuations near the QCD critical point can be probed by an intermittency analysis of power-law behavior on scaled factorial moments in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We study the second-order scaled factorial moment in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-12 Zhiming Li , Jin Wu

Energy Dependence of Intermittency for Charged Hadrons in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC

Density fluctuations near the QCD critical point can be probed via an intermittency analysis in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We report the first measurement of intermittency in Au$+$Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{_{NN}}}$ = 7.7-200…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-09-20 STAR Collaboration , M. I. Abdulhamid , B. E. Aboona , J. Adam , L. Adamczyk , J. R. Adams , I. Aggarwal , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , D. M. Anderson , E. C. Aschenauer , S. Aslam , J. Atchison , V. Bairathi , W. Baker , J. G. Ball Cap , K. Barish , R. Bellwied , P. Bhagat , A. Bhasin , S. Bhatta , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , J. D. Brandenburg , X. Z. Cai , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , D. Cebra , J. Ceska , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , B. K. Chan , Z. Chang , A. Chatterjee , D. Chen , J. Chen , J. H. Chen , Z. Chen , J. Cheng , Y. Cheng , S. Choudhury , W. Christie , X. Chu , H. J. Crawford , M. Csanád , G. Dale-Gau , A. Das , M. Daugherity , I. M. Deppner , A. Dhamija , L. Di Carlo , P. Dixit , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , E. Duckworth , J. C. Dunlop , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , A. Ewigleben , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , C. J. Feng , Y. Feng , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , F. A. Flor , C. Fu , C. A. Gagliardi , T. Galatyuk , T. Gao , F. Geurts , N. Ghimire , A. Gibson , K. Gopal , X. Gou , D. Grosnick , A. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. Hamed , Y. Han , S. Harabasz , M. D. Harasty , J. W. Harris , H. Harrison-Smith , W. He , X. H. He , Y. He , N. Herrmann , L. Holub , C. Hu , Q. Hu , Y. Hu , H. Huang , H. Z. Huang , S. L. Huang , T. Huang , X. Huang , Y. Huang , Y. Huang , T. J. Humanic , D. Isenhower , M. Isshiki , W. W. Jacobs , A. Jalotra , C. Jena , A. Jentsch , Y. Ji , J. Jia , C. Jin , X. Ju , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , M. L. Kabir , S. Kagamaster , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , D. Keane , M. Kelsey , Y. V. Khyzhniak , D. P. Kikoła , B. Kimelman , D. Kincses , I. Kisel , A. Kiselev , A. G. Knospe , H. S. Ko , L. K. Kosarzewski , L. Kramarik , L. Kumar , S. Kumar , R. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , J. H. Lee , Y. H. Leung , N. Lewis , C. Li , W. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , Y. Li , Z. Li , Z. Li , X. Liang , Y. Liang , R. Licenik , T. Lin , Y. Lin , M. A. Lisa , C. Liu , F. Liu , G. Liu , H. Liu , H. Liu , L. Liu , T. Liu , X. Liu , Y. Liu , Z. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , O. Lomicky , R. S. Longacre , E. M. Loyd , T. Lu , N. S. Lukow , X. F. Luo , L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , N. Magdy , D. Mallick , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. S. Matis , J. A. Mazer , G. McNamara , K. Mi , S. Mioduszewski , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , I. Mooney , A. Mukherjee , M. I. Nagy , A. S. Nain , J. D. Nam , M. Nasim , D. Neff , J. M. Nelson , D. B. Nemes , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , R. Nishitani , T. Nonaka , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , S. Oh , K. Okubo , B. S. Page , R. Pak , J. Pan , A. Pandav , A. K. Pandey , T. Pani , A. Paul , B. Pawlik , D. Pawlowska , C. Perkins , J. Pluta , B. R. Pokhrel , M. Posik , T. Protzman , V. Prozorova , N. K. Pruthi , M. Przybycien , J. Putschke , Z. Qin , H. Qiu , A. Quintero , C. Racz , S. K. Radhakrishnan , N. Raha , R. L. Ray , R. Reed , H. G. Ritter , C. W. Robertson , M. Robotkova , M. A. Rosales Aguilar , D. Roy , P. Roy Chowdhury , L. Ruan , A. K. Sahoo , N. R. Sahoo , H. Sako , S. Salur , S. Sato , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , F-J. Seck , J. Seger , R. Seto , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , P. V. Shanmuganathan , T. Shao , M. Sharma , N. Sharma , R. Sharma , S. R. Sharma , A. I. Sheikh , D. Shen , D. Y. Shen , K. Shen , S. S. Shi , Y. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , F. Si , J. Singh , S. Singha , P. Sinha , M. J. Skoby , N. Smirnov , Y. Söhngen , Y. Song , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , M. Stefaniak , D. J. Stewart , B. Stringfellow , Y. Su , A. A. P. Suaide , M. Sumbera , C. Sun , X. Sun , Y. Sun , Y. Sun , B. Surrow , Z. W. Sweger , P. Szymanski , A. Tamis , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , T. Todoroki , C. A. Tomkiel , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , T. Truhlar , B. A. Trzeciak , O. D. Tsai , C. Y. Tsang , Z. Tu , J. Tyler , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , J. Vanek , I. Vassiliev , V. Verkest , F. Videbæk , S. A. Voloshin , F. Wang , G. Wang , J. S. Wang , J. Wang , X. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Z. Wang , J. C. Webb , P. C. Weidenkaff , G. D. Westfall , D. Wielanek , H. Wieman , G. Wilks , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , J. Wu , J. Wu , X. Wu , X. Wu , Y. Wu , Y. Wu , B. Xi , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , H. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , Y. Xu , Y. Xu , Z. Xu , Z. Xu , G. Yan , Z. Yan , C. Yang , Q. Yang , S. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , K. Yip , Y. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , C. Zhang , D. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , W. Zhang , X. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. J. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Zhang , F. Zhao , J. Zhao , M. Zhao , C. Zhou , J. Zhou , S. Zhou , Y. Zhou , X. Zhu , M. Zurek , M. Zyzak

Search for the QCD Critical Point with Fluctuations of Conserved Quantities in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at RHIC : An Overview

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

Intermittency analysis of proton numbers in heavy-ion collisions at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Local density fluctuations near the QCD critical point has been suggested to exhibit a power-law behavior which can be probed by an intermittency analysis on scaled factorial moment (SFM) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The collision…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-23 Jin Wu , Yufu Lin , Zhiming Li , Xiaofeng Luo , Yuanfang Wu

Measurement of Intermittency for Charged Particles in Au + Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 7.7-200 GeV from STAR

Local density fluctuations near the QCD critical point can be probed by intermittency analysis of scaled factorial moments in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We report the first measurement of intermittency for charged particles in Au +…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-08-12 Jin Wu

Baryon-Strangeness Correlations in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$=7.7-200 GeV from the UrQMD model

Fluctuations and correlations of conserved charges are sensitive observables for studying the QCD phase transition and critical point in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We have studied the centrality and energy dependence of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-02-01 Zhenzhen Yang , Xiaofeng Luo , Bedangadas Mohanty

Cumulants of event-by-event net-strangeness distributions in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$=7.7-200 GeV from UrQMD model

Fluctuations of conserved quantities, such as baryon, electric charge and strangeness number, are sensitive observables in heavy-ion collisions to search for the QCD phase transition and critical point. In this paper, we performed a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-07-17 Chang Zhou , Ji Xu , Xiaofeng Luo , Feng Liu

Probing the Quark-Gluon Phase Transition with Correlations and Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions from the STAR Experiment

The measurement of particle correlations and fluctuations has been suggested as a method to search for the existence of a phase transition in relativistic heavy ion collisions. If quark-gluon matter is formed in the collision of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Terence J. Tarnowsky

Cumulants of Net-Proton, Net-Kaon and Net-Charge Multiplicity Distributions in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC BES Energies from UrQMD Model

Fluctuations of conserved quantities are sensitive observables to probe the signature of QCD phase transition and critical point in heavy-ion collisions. With the UrQMD model, we have studied the centrality and energy dependence of various…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-08-03 Ji Xu , Shili Yu , Feng Liu , Xiaofeng Luo

Collision Energy Dependence of Moments of Net-Kaon Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC

Fluctuations of conserved quantities such as baryon number, charge, and strangeness are sensitive to the correlation length of the hot and dense matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and can be used to search for the QCD…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-09-18 STAR Collaboration , L. Adamczyk , J. R. Adams , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , N. N. Ajitanand , I. Alekseev , D. M. Anderson , R. Aoyama , A. Aparin , D. Arkhipkin , E. C. Aschenauer , M. U. Ashraf , A. Attri , G. S. Averichev , X. Bai , V. Bairathi , K. Barish , A. Behera , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , A. K. Bhati , P. Bhattarai , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. Bouchet , J. D. Brandenburg , A. V. Brandin , D. Brown , J. Bryslawskyj , I. Bunzarov , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , J. M. Campbell , D. Cebra , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , Z. Chang , N. Chankova-Bunzarova , A. Chatterjee , S. Chattopadhyay , X. Chen , X. Chen , J. H. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Cherney , W. Christie , G. Contin , H. J. Crawford , S. Das , T. G. Dedovich , J. Deng , I. M. Deppner , A. A. Derevschikov , L. Didenko , C. Dilks , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. E. Draper , J. C. Dunlop , L. G. Efimov , N. Elsey , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , R. Esha , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , J. Ewigleben , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , P. Federic , P. Federicova , J. Fedorisin , Z. Feng , P. Filip , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , C. E. Flores , J. Fujita , L. Fulek , C. A. Gagliardi , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , M. Girard , D. Grosnick , D. S. Gunarathne , Y. Guo , A. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. I. Hamad , A. Hamed , A. Harlenderova , J. W. Harris , L. He , S. Heppelmann , S. Heppelmann , N. Herrmann , A. Hirsch , S. Horvat , B. Huang , T. Huang , X. Huang , H. Z. Huang , T. J. Humanic , P. Huo , G. Igo , W. W. Jacobs , A. Jentsch , J. Jia , K. Jiang , S. Jowzaee , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , Z. Khan , D. P. Kikoła , C. Kim , I. Kisel , A. Kisiel , L. Kochenda , M. Kocmanek , T. Kollegger , L. K. Kosarzewski , A. F. Kraishan , L. Krauth , P. Kravtsov , K. Krueger , N. Kulathunga , L. Kumar , J. Kvapil , J. H. Kwasizur , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , K. D. Landry , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , X. Li , W. Li , Y. Li , C. Li , J. Lidrych , T. Lin , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , P. Liu , Y. Liu , H. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , M. Lomnitz , R. S. Longacre , X. Luo , S. Luo , G. L. Ma , L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Majka , D. Mallick , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. S. Matis , D. Mayes , K. Meehan , J. C. Mei , Z. W. Miller , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , D. Mishra , S. Mizuno , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , D. A. Morozov , M. K. Mustafa , Md. Nasim , T. K. Nayak , J. M. Nelson , D. B. Nemes , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , L. V. Nogach , T. Nonaka , S. B. Nurushev , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , K. Oh , V. A. Okorokov , D. Olvitt , B. S. Page , R. Pak , Y. Pandit , Y. Panebratsev , B. Pawlik , H. Pei , C. Perkins , J. Pluta , K. Poniatowska , J. Porter , M. Posik , N. K. Pruthi , M. Przybycien , J. Putschke , A. Quintero , S. Ramachandran , R. L. Ray , R. Reed , M. J. Rehbein , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , J. D. Roth , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , O. Rusnakova , N. R. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , S. Salur , J. Sandweiss , A. Sarkar , M. Saur , J. Schambach , A. M. Schmah , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , B. R. Schweid , J. Seger , M. Sergeeva , R. Seto , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , M. Shao , W. Q. Shen , S. S. Shi , Z. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , R. Sikora , M. Simko , S. Singha , M. J. Skoby , N. Smirnov , D. Smirnov , W. Solyst , P. Sorensen , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , D. J. Stewart , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , A. A. P. Suaide , T. Sugiura , M. Sumbera , B. Summa , Y. Sun , X. Sun , X. M. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , A. Taranenko , T. Tarnowsky , A. Tawfik , J. Thäder , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , T. Todoroki , M. Tokarev , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , S. K. Tripathy , B. A. Trzeciak , O. D. Tsai , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , G. van Nieuwenhuizen , A. N. Vasiliev , F. Videbæk , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , A. Vossen , G. Wang , Y. Wang , F. Wang , Y. Wang , G. Webb , J. C. Webb , L. Wen , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , Y. Wu , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , Y. F. Xu , J. Xu , Q. H. Xu , N. Xu , Z. Xu , S. Yang , Y. Yang , C. Yang , Q. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , K. Yip , I. -K. Yoo , N. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , Z. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , S. Zhang , J. Zhang , Y. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , J. B. Zhang , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , L. Zhou , C. Zhou , X. Zhu , Z. Zhu , M. Zyzak

A Study of the QCD Critical Point Using Particle Ratio Fluctuations

Dynamical fluctuations in global conserved quantities such as baryon number, strangeness, or charge may be observed near a QCD critical point. Results from new measurements of dynamical $K/\pi$ and $p/\pi$ ratio fluctuations are presented.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-21 Terence J Tarnowsky

Diffusive dynamics of critical fluctuations near the QCD critical point

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

Charged hadron multiplicity fluctuations in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions from sqrt(s_NN) = 22.5 to 200 GeV

A comprehensive survey of event-by-event fluctuations of charged hadron multiplicity in relativistic heavy ions is presented. The survey covers Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 62.4 and 200 GeV, and Cu+Cu collisions sqrt(s_NN) = 22.5, 62.4,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-09-07 A. Adare

Locating the QCD critical endpoint through finite-size scaling

Considering the 3d Ising universality class of the QCD critical endpoint we use a universal effective action for the description of the baryon-number density fluctuations around the critical region. Calculating the baryon-number…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-21 N. G. Antoniou , F. K. Diakonos , X. N. Maintas , C. E. Tsagkarakis

Intermittency of charged particles in the hybrid UrQMD+CMC model at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Within the framework of intermittency analysis, a search for critical fluctuations is ongoing to locate the possible critical point in the quantum chromodynamics phase diagram. In this study, self-similar critical fluctuations from a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-09 Jin Wu , Zhiming Li , Xiaofeng Luo , Mingmei Xu , Yuanfang Wu

Pion Fluctuations near the QCD Critical Point

A critical point of second order, belonging to the universality class of the 3d Ising model, has recently been advocated as a strong candidate for the critical behaviour (at high temperatures) of QCD with non-zero quark masses. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. G. Antoniou , Y. F. Contoyiannis , F. K. Diakonos

Search for QCD Phase Transitions and the Critical Point utilizing Particle Ratio Fluctuations and Transverse Momentum Correlations from the STAR Experiment

Dynamical fluctuations of the globally conserved quantities in heavy ion collision such as baryon number, strangeness, charge, and isospin are suggested to carry information about the deconfinement and chiral phase transitions. The STAR…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-12 Prithwish Tribedy

Study of dynamical charge fluctuations in the hadronic medium

The dynamical charge fluctuations have been studied in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions by using hadronic model simulations, such as UrQMD and HIJING. The evolution of fluctuations has been calculated at different time steps during…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-03 Bhanu Sharma , Madan M. Aggarwal , Nihar Ranjan Sahoo , Tapan K. Nayak

Searching for the QCD Critical Point Using Particle Ratio Fluctuations and Higher Moments of Multiplicity Distributions

Dynamical fluctuations in global conserved quantities such as baryon number, strangeness, or charge may be observed near a QCD critical point. Results from new measurements of dynamical $K/\pi$, $p/\pi$, and $K/p$ ratio fluctuations are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Terence J Tarnowsky