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The description of dynamical fluctuations near the QCD critical point in heavy-ion collisions is crucial for understanding the existing and upcoming experimental data from the beam energy scan programs. In this talk we discuss the evolution…

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I provide a brief summary of the theory presentations at ISMD 2011 related to the phenomenology of small-x QCD evolution and its application to particle production and fluctuations in high-energy hadron and heavy-ion collisions. I also…

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Event-by-event fluctuations and correlations between particles produced in relativistic nuclear collisions are studied. The fluctuations in positive, negative, total and net charge are closely related through correlations. In the event of a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Heiselberg , A. D. Jackson

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

The exploration of the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram is a central goal of relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments. This review focuses on the role of fluctuations and correlations as sensitive probes of the phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-05 Volker Koch , Volodymyr Vovchenko

Recent progress of a general deterministic approach to the non-Gaussian fluctuation dynamics is reviewed, with an emphasis on the derivation of the fluctuation evolution equations and their phenomenological implication in heavy-ion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-30 Xin An

Overview of event-by-event studies on relativistic heavy-ion collisions is given. I focus on fluctuation measurements and on theoretical ideas which appeared experimentally fruitful.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-04-24 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

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

The thermalization of quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions is crucial for understanding its behavior as a relativistic fluid and the thermodynamic properties of the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). This study investigates the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-19 Yu-Shan Mu , Jing-An Sun , Li Yan , Xu-Guang Huang

We discuss an event-by-event fluctuation analysis of particle production in heavy ion collisions. We compare different approaches to the evaluation of the event-by-event dynamical fluctuations in quantities defined on groups of particles,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 S. A. Voloshin , V. Koch , H. G. Ritter

One of the ultimate goals of nuclear collision experiments at high energy is to map the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter. A very challenging task is the determination of the QCD phase structure including the search for critical…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-02-03 Anar Rustamov

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

We summarize recent significant progress in the development of a first-principles formalism to describe the formation and evolution of matter in very high energy heavy ion collisions. The key role of quantum fluctuations both before and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Kevin Dusling , Francois Gelis , Raju Venugopalan

We discuss various measures of net charge (conserved quantities) fluctuations proposed for the identification of critical phenomena in heavy ion collisions. We show the dynamical component of fluctuations of the net charge can be expressed…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Pruneau , S. Gavin , S. Voloshin

Since their discovery, fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions have been understood as originating mostly from the random positions of nucleons within the colliding nuclei. We consider an alternative approach where all the…

With the highly anticipated results from the Beam Energy Scan II program at RHIC being recently revealed, an understanding of particle-number fluctuations and their significance as a potential signature of a possible QCD critical point is…

We analyze the evolution of hydrodynamic fluctuations in a heavy ion collision as the system passes close to the QCD critical point. We introduce two small dimensionless parameters $\lambda$ and $\Delta_s$ to characterize the evolution.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-09 Yukinao Akamatsu , Derek Teaney , Fanglida Yan , Yi Yin

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 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