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Baryon number cumulants are invaluable tools to diagnose the primordial stage of heavy ion collisions if they can be measured. In experiments, however, proton number cumulants have been measured as substitutes. In fact, proton number…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Masakiyo Kitazawa , Masayuki Asakawa

Higher moments of multiplicity fluctuations of hadrons produced in central nucleus-nucleus collisions are studied within the hadron-resonance gas model in the canonical ensemble. Exact conservation of three charges, baryon number, electric…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-27 Jing-Hua Fu

We explore net charge probability distributions in heavy ion collisions within the hadron resonance gas model. The distributions for strangeness, electric charge and baryon number are derived. We show that, within this model, net charge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Braun-Munzinger , B. Friman , F. Karsch , K. Redlich , V. Skokov

We study the net-charge fluctuations, $D$-measure variable, in high energy heavy-ion collisions in heavy-ion jet interaction generator (HIJING), ultrarelativistic quantum molecular dynamics (UrQMD) and hadron resonance gas (HRG) models for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-15 D. K. Mishra , P. K. Netrakanti , P. Garg

Moments (Variance ($\sigma^2$), Skewness($S$), Kurtosis($\kappa$)) of multiplicity distributions of conserved quantities, such as net-baryon,net-charge and net-strangeness, are predicted to be sensitive to the correlation length of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-09-06 Xiaofeng Luo , Ji Xu , Bedangadas Mohanty , Nu Xu

We study the propogation and diffusion of electric charge fluctuations in high energy heavy ion collisions using the Cattaneo form for the dissipative part of the electric current. As opposed to the ordinary diffusion equation this form…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-31 Joseph I. Kapusta , Christopher Plumberg

Large density fluctuations of conserved charges have been proposed as a promising signature for exploring the QCD critical point in heavy-ion collisions. These fluctuations are expected to exhibit a fractal or scale-invariant behavior,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-04 Rui Wang , Chengrui Qiu , Chuan-Shen Hu , Zhiming Li , Yuanfang Wu

An anomalous collision-energy dependence of proton number fluctuations is predicted as a consequence of the onset of deconfinement in heavy-ion collisions at the center of mass energy of the nucleon pair of about 10 GeV. The effect arises…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-18 Marek Gazdzicki , Mark Gorenstein , Anar Rustamov

We calculate the first four moments of baryon number, electric charge and strangeness fluctuations within the hadron resonance gas model. Different moments and their ratios as well as skewness and kurtosis are evaluated on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-27 Frithjof Karsch , Krzysztof Redlich

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

Event-by-event fluctuations of the net baryon number and electric charge in nucleus-nucleus collisions are studied in Pb+Pb at SPS energies within the HSD transport model. We reveal an important role of the fluctuations in the number of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. P. Konchakovski , M. I. Gorenstein , E. L. Bratkovskaya , H. Stocker

In order to compare theoretical calculations of thermal fluctuations of conserved quantities, such as charge susceptibilities or the specific heat, to experimentally measured correlations and fluctuations in heavy ion collisions, one must…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-31 Scott Pratt , Clint Young

Some experimental results are discussed in connection with the properties of the central heavy ion collisions. These experiments indicate the regime changes and saturation at some values of the centrality. This phenomenon is considered to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-04-15 Z. Wazir , M. K. Suleymanov , E. U. Khan , Mahnaz Q. Haseeb , M. Ajaz , K. H. Khan

Correlations and fluctuations (the latter are directly related to the 2-particle correlations) is one of the important directions in analysis of heavy ion collisions. At the current stage of RHIC exploration, when the details matter,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-26 Sergei A. Voloshin

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

Higher order moments of net conserved charge fluctuations, in particular net baryon number and net electric charge, are sensitive thermodynamic observables that respond strongly to critical behavior in strong interaction matter. In order to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-16 Frithjof Karsch

We propose that dramatic changes in the variances and covariance of protons and antiprotons can result if baryons approach chemical equilibrium in nuclear collisions at RHIC. To explore how equilibration alters these fluctuations, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sean Gavin , Claude Pruneau

We discuss the importance of event-by-event fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We present results of multiplicity fluctuations of photons and charged particles produced in 158$\cdot A$ GeV Pb+Pb collisions at CERN-SPS.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 Tapan K. Nayak

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

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