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The moments and moment products of conserved charges are believed to be sensitive to critical fluctuations, which have been adopted in determining the QCD critical point. Using a dynamical multiphase transport model, we reproduce the…

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The evolution of a heavy ion collision passes close to the O(4) critical point of QCD, where fluctuations of the order parameter are expected to be enhanced. Using the appropriate stochastic hydrodynamic equations in mean field near the the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-16 Alexander Soloviev

Fluctuations provide a powerful tool for elucidating the nature of strongly-interacting matter in the QCD phase diagram. In heavy-ion-collision systems, the net-particle number fluctuations are captured at the moment of chemical freeze-out.…

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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

We study the critical properties of net-baryon-number fluctuations at the chiral restoration transition in a medium at finite temperature and net baryon density. The chiral dynamics of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is modeled by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Gabor Almasi , Bengt Friman , Krzysztof Redlich

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

For a complete understanding of the QCD phase diagram it is important to connect first-principle thermodynamic calculations to experimental data from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan and the future experimental facilities FAIR, GSI, and NICA,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-29 Marlene Nahrgang

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

We discuss the role of cumulants of net baryon number fluctuations in the analysis of critical behavior in QCD and the study of freeze-out conditions in heavy ion experiments. Through the comparison of the current set of measurements of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Frithjof Karsch , Krzysztof Redlich

We report the latest results on the search for the QCD critical point in the QCD phase diagram through high energy heavy-ion collisions. The measurements discussed are based on the higher moments of the net-proton multiplicity distributions…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-01-25 Bedangadas Mohanty , Nu Xu

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

Higher moments of distributions of net charge and baryon number in heavy-ion collisions have been proposed as signals of fundamental QCD phase transitions. In order to better understand background processes for these observables, models are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Scott Pratt , Rachel Steinhorst

Net-proton number fluctuations can be measured experimentally and hence provide a source of important information about the matter created during relativistic heavy ion collisions. Particularly, they may give us clues about the conjectured…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-19 Michał Szymański , Marcus Bluhm , Krzysztof Redlich , Chihiro Sasaki

We discuss the relevance of higher order moments of net baryon number fluctuations for the analysis of freeze-out and critical conditions in heavy ion collisions at LHC and RHIC. Using properties of O(4) scaling functions, we discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 B. Friman , F. Karsch , K. Redlich , V. Skokov

Event-by-event fluctuations of the net-proton number studied in heavy-ion collisions provide an important means in the search for the conjectured critical end point (CP) in the QCD phase diagram. We propose a phenomenological model in which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Michał Szymański , Marcus Bluhm , Krzysztof Redlich , Chihiro Sasaki

It is shown that intermittency, a self-similar correlation with respect to the size of the phase space volume, is sensitive to critical density fluctuations of baryon numbers in a system belonging to the three-dimensional (3D) Ising…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-06 Jin Wu , Yufu Lin , Yuanfang Wu , Zhiming Li

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

We apply stochastic hydrodynamics to the study of charge density fluctuations in QCD matter undergoing Bjorken expansion. We find that the charge density correlations are given by a time integral over the history of the system, with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-06-09 B. Ling , T. Springer , M. Stephanov

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

Fluctuations of conserved quantities in heavy-ion collisions are used to probe the phase transition and the QCD critical point for the strongly interacting hot and dense nuclear matter. The STAR experiment has carried out moment analysis of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-01 Xiaofeng Luo