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The net-baryon density at midrapidity is proposed as an order parameter in the search for the QCD critical point in heavy ion collisions. As a function of the initial energy and the total number of participants, this quantity obeys a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. G. Antoniou , F. K. Diakonos , A. S. Kapoyannis

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

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

The higher order moments of the net-baryon distributions in relativistic heavy ion collisions are useful probes for the QCD critical point and fluctuations. We study the net-proton distributions and their moments in a simple model which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 C. B. Yang , X. Wang

This paper investigates the dynamics of the net-baryon multiplicity fluctuations near the QCD critical point, within the inhomogeneous temperature and baryon chemical potential profile of quark-gluon plasma from the hydrodynamics. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-04 Shanjin Wu

QCD critical point is a landmark region in the QCD phase diagram outlined by temperature as a function of baryon chemical potential. To the right of this second-order phase transition point, one expects first order quark-hadron phase…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-05-25 A. Pandav , D. Mallick , B. Mohanty

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

Critical phenomena in phase transitions of strongly interacting matter, governed by quantum chromodynamics, are inherently encoded in the fluctuations of conserved charges. In this work, we study the net-baryon number density fluctuations,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-16 Michał Marczenko

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

We investigate the fluctuations of the net-baryon number density in dense hadronic matter. Chiral dynamics is modeled via the parity doublet Lagrangian, and the mean-field approximation is employed to account for chiral criticality. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Michał Marczenko , Krzysztof Redlich , Chihiro Sasaki

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-10 Marlene Nahrgang , Marcus Bluhm , Thomas Schaefer , Steffen A. Bass

Current heavy-ion collision experiments might lead to the discovery of a first-order chiral symmetry breaking phase-transition line, ending in a second-order critical point. Nevertheless, the extraction of information about the equilibrium…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-14 Eduardo S. Fraga , Maurício Hippert

We investigate the role of a finite surface tension during the time-evolution of fluctuations in the net-baryon density. The systems in this study undergo a temperature evolution across the phase transition in the critical region of the QCD…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-21 Marcus Bluhm , Marlene Nahrgang

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

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

The dynamic separation into phases of high and low baryon density in a heavy ion collision can enhance fluctuations of the net rapidity density of baryons compared to model expectations. We show how these fluctuations arise and how they can…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sean Gavin

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

The dynamic separation into phases of high and low baryon density in a heavy ion collision can enhance fluctuations of the net rapidity density of baryons compared to model expectations. We demonstrate that event-by-event proton and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 David Bower , Sean Gavin

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

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

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-22 Bengt Friman , Gabor Almasi , Krzysztof Redlich
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