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We study the influence of global baryon number conservation on the non-critical baseline of net baryon cumulants in heavy-ion collisions in a given acceptance, accounting for the asymmetry between the mean-numbers of baryons and…

We compute high-order baryon number fluctuations at finite temperature and density within a QCD-assisted low energy effective field theory. Quantum, thermal and density fluctuations are incorporated with the functional renormalization group…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 Wei-jie Fu , Xiaofeng Luo , Jan M. Pawlowski , Fabian Rennecke , Rui Wen , Shi Yin

Fluctuations of the proton number distribution in central Au-Au collisions have been measured by the STAR collaboration in a beam energy scan at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The motivation is a search for evidence of a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-21 M. Albright , J. Kapusta , C. Young

The skewness and the kurtosis of the baryon number distributions are computed within QCD-improved low energy effective models including quantum thermal and density fluctuations. The results are compared with the Beam Energy Scan experiment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-01 Wei-jie Fu , Jan M. Pawlowski

We present the STAR preliminary results on mid-rapidity and low transverse momentum mean, standard deviation, skewness, and kurtosis of net-charge and net-proton distributions in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Tapan K. Nayak

Charting the phase diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at large density is a challenging task due to the complex action problem in lattice simulations. Through simulations at imaginary baryon chemical potential $\mu_B$ we observe that,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-11-03 Szabolcs Borsányi , Zoltán Fodor , Jana N. Guenther , Piyush Kumar , Paolo Parotto , Attila Pásztor , Chik Him Wong

Fluctuations of conserved quantities such as net-baryon, net-charge, and net-strangeness numbers have generated considerable interest in the study of the thermodynamic properties of the hot and dense QCD matter. Theoretical calculations…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-09-14 Arghya Chatterjee

Studying fluctuations of conserved quantities, such as baryon number, strangeness, and charge, provides insights into the properties of matter created in high-energy nuclear collisions. Lattice QCD calculations suggest that higher moments…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-11-23 Jochen Thäder

The relevance of higher order cumulants of net baryon number fluctuations for the analysis of freeze-out and critical conditions in heavy-ion collisions at LHC and RHIC is addressed. The sign structure of the higher order cumulants in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-06 Bernd-Jochen Schaefer , Mathias Wagner

Lattice QCD (LQCD) calculations predict that chiral symmetry is restored in a smooth crossover transition between a quark-gluon plasma and a hadron resonance gas (HRG) at vanishing net-baryon density, a condition realized in heavy-ion…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-10-14 Ilya Fokin

We calculate electric and baryonic charge fluctuations on the lattice. Results have been obtained with the highly improved staggered quark action (HISQ) and almost physical quark masses on lattices with spacial extent of $N_\tau=6,8,12$.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-12 Christian Schmidt

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

We calculate the quadratic fluctuations of net baryon number, electric charge and strangeness as well as correlations among these conserved charges in (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD at zero chemical potential. Results are obtained using…

The QCD Critical Point is a pivotal feature of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter. Signatures of the critical point are expected to manifest through the non-monotonic behavior of higher-order moments of conserved quantities,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-30 Amal Sarkar , Paramita Deb , Bidhan Mandal , Raghava Varma

We present results on baryon number, strangeness and electric charge fluctuations in QCD at non-zero density and temperature obtained from lattice calculations with almost physical quark masses. At vanishing chemical potential, i.e. under…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Schmidt , for RBC-Bielefeld Collaboration

The appearance of large, none-Gaussian cumulants of the baryon number distribution is commonly discussed as a signal for the QCD critical point. We review the status of the Taylor expansion of cumulant ratios of baryon number fluctuations…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-11-29 C. Schmidt , J. Goswami , G. Nicotra , F. Ziesché , P. Dimopoulos , F. Di Renzo , S. Singh , K. Zambello

We investigate the density fluctuations induced by hadronic interactions at low temperatures and large chemical potentials after the hadronization of quark-gluon plasma~(QGP). We analyze the structures of net-baryon number kurtosis and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-29 Guo-yun Shao , Xue-yan Gao , Wei-bo He

We calculate cumulants of fluctuations of net-baryon number, net-electric charge and net-strangeness, in the framework of lattice regularized QCD. We use a highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) action on lattices with temporal extent of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-01-29 Christian Schmidt

We investigate the net-baryon number fluctuations across the chiral phase transition at finite density in the strong coupling and chiral limit. Mesonic field fluctuations are taken into account by using the auxiliary field Monte-Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-12-29 Terukazu Ichihara , Kenji Morita , Akira Ohnishi

We study the fluctuations and correlations of conserved charges, i.e. the baryon number, electric charge and the strangeness at finite temperature and nonzero baryon chemical potential with an effective model. The fluctuations are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Wei-jie Fu , Yue-liang Wu