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Enhanced fluctuations and correlations have been observed in the phase transitions of many systems. Their appearance at the predicted QCD phase transition (especially near the expected critical point) may provide insight into the nature of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-03-17 Terence J Tarnowsky

For the discovery of the QCD critical point it is crucial to develop dynamical models of the fluctuations of the net-baryon number that can be embedded in simulations of heavy-ion collisions. In this proceeding, we study the dynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Masakiyo Kitazawa , Grégoire Pihan , Nathan Touroux , Marcus Bluhm , Marlene Nahrgang

Fluctuations and correlations of conserved quantities (baryon number, strangeness, and charge) can be used to probe phases of strongly interacting QCD matter and the possible existence of a critical point in the phase diagram. The cumulants…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-08-14 Roli Esha

The appearance of the inflection point in the equation of state (EoS) is associated with the second order phase transition. The high cumulants of conserved quantities near the critical point are corresponding to the high derivatives of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-18 Mingmei Xu , Yuanfang Wu

Fluctuations are one of the main probes of the physics of the new state of hot and dense nuclear matter called the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) which is created in the ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. In this dissertation we extend and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-07 Aleksas Mazeliauskas

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

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 fluctuations of macroscopic observables in quantum systems which are in a nonequilibrium steady state are studied rigorously in the thermodynamic limit. In particular, the nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) of a quantum spin system that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Walid K. Abou Salem

This report summarizes the presentations and discussions during the Rapid Reaction Task Force "Dynamics of critical fluctuations: Theory -- phenomenology -- heavy-ion collisions", which was organized by the ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI and…

We study two recently proposed equations of state (EOS) which are obtained from high temperature QCD, and show how they can be adapted to use them for making predictions for relativistic heavy ion collisions. The method involves extracting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Vinod Chandra , Ravindra Kumar , V. Ravishankar

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 report precision measurements on cumulants ($C_{n}$) and factorial cumulants ($\kappa_{n}$) of (net-)proton number distributions up to fourth-order in Au+Au collisions from phase II of the Beam Energy Scan program at RHIC. (Anti-)protons…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-04-02 The STAR Collaboration

We investigate the evolution of the net-proton kurtosis and the kurtosis of the chiral order parameter near the critical point in the model of nonequilibrium chiral fluid dynamics. The order parameter is propagated explicitly and coupled to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Christoph Herold , Marlene Nahrgang , Yupeng Yan , Chinorat Kobdaj

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

The recent net-proton fluctuation results of the STAR (Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC) experiment from beam energy scan (BES) program at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have drawn much attention to exploring the QCD critical…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-04-18 Dhananjaya Thakur , Sunil Jakhar , Prakhar Garg , Raghunath Sahoo

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

We propose to describe the time evolution of quasi-stationary fluctuations near QCD critical point by a system of stochastic Boltzmann-Langevin-Vlasov-type equations. We derive the equations and study the system analytically in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 M. A. Stephanov

We analyze the behavior of (net-)proton number cumulants in central collisions of heavy ions across a broad collision energy range by utilizing hydrodynamic simulations. The calculations incorporate essential non-critical contributions to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-05 Volodymyr Vovchenko , Volker Koch , Chun Shen

Higher moments of net-proton Binder ratio, which is suggested to be a good experimental measurement to locate the QCD critical point, is measured in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We firstly estimate the effect of statistical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Zhiming Li , Fengbo Xiong , Yuanfang Wu

We study time evolution of critical fluctuations of conserved charges near the QCD critical point in the context of relativistic heavy ion collisions. A stochastic diffusion equation is employed in order to describe the diffusion property…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-21 Miki Sakaida , Masayuki Asakawa , Hirotsugu Fujii , Masakiyo Kitazawa