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We argue that the proton multiplicities measured in Roman pot detectors at an electron ion collider can be used to determine centrality classes in incoherent diffractive scattering. Incoherent diffraction probes the fluctuations in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 T. Lappi , H. Mäntysaari , R. Venugopalan

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the event-by-event mean transverse momentum fluctuations are sensitive to overlap area and energy density fluctuations in initial state. We present a framework to calculate $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ fluctuations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-01 Somadutta Bhatta , Chunjian Zhang , Jiangyong Jia

Motivated by forthcoming experiments at RHIC and LHC, we study event-by-event fluctuations in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions in participant nucleon as well as thermal models. The calculated physical observables, including…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Baym , H. Heiselberg

The multiplicity distributions of hadrons produced in central nucleus-nucleus collisions are studied within the hadron-resonance gas model in the large volume limit. The microscopic correlator method is used to enforce conservation of three…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. V. Begun , M. Gazdzicki , M. I. Gorenstein , M. Hauer , V. P. Konchakovski , B. Lungwitz

The behaviour of the transverse momentum fluctuations with the centrality of the collision shown by the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider data is naturally explained by the clustering of color sources. In this framework, elementary color…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 E. G. Ferreiro , F. del Moral , C. Pajares

In dynamic systems, charge susceptibilities and local charge correlations change with time. These changes are accompanied by non-local correlations which spread diffusively with time and are constrained by local charge conservation.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-05 Scott Pratt

Fluctuation measurements are important sources of information on the mechanism of particle production at LHC energies. This article reports the first experimental results on third-order cumulants of the net-proton distributions in Pb$-$Pb…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-11-28 ALICE Collaboration

A new, sensitive method allows one to search for the enhancement of events with nearly equal-sized fragments as predicted by theoretical calculations based on volume or surface instabilities. Simulations have been performed to investigate…

Particle number fluctuations and correlations in nucleus-nucleus collisions at SPS and RHIC energies are studied within the statistical hadron-resonance gas model in different statistical ensembles and in the Hadron-String-Dynamics (HSD)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-09 V. P. Konchakovski , M. Hauer , M. I. Gorenstein , E. L. Bratkovskaya

We present the results of charged particle fluctuations measurements in Au + Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=130$ GeV using the STAR detector. Dynamical fluctuations measurements are presented for inclusive charged particle multiplicities…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Adams

We discuss the physics underlying event-by-event fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We will argue that the fluctuations of the ratio of positively over negatively charged particles may serve as a unique signature for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 M. Doering , V. Koch

We propose an extension of the initial condition model TRENTo for sampling the number of partons inside the nucleons that participate in a heavy-ion collision. This sampling method is based on parton distribution functions (PDFs) and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-22 Andreas Kirchner , Steffen A. Bass

The charged hadron multiplicity fluctuations are considered in the canonical ensemble. The microscopic correlator method is extended to include three conserved charges: baryon number, electric charge and strangeness. The analytical formulae…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. V. Begun , M. I. Gorenstein , M. Hauer , V. P. Konchakovski , O. S. Zozulya

Nucleon correlations in the target and projectile nuclei are shown to reduce significantly the fluctuations in multiple nucleon-nucleon collisions, total multiplicity and transverse energy in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, in particular…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 Gordon Baym , B. Blättel , L. L. Frankfurt , H. Heiselberg , M. Strikman

Measurements of charged dihadron angular correlations are presented in proton-proton (pp) and Lead-Lead (PbPb) collisions, over a broad range of pseudorapidity and azimuthal angle, using the CMS detector at the LHC. In very high…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-28 Wei Li

We discuss the scaling laws of both the charged fragments multiplicity fluctuations and the charge of the largest fragment fluctuations for Xe+Sn collisions in the range of bombarding energies between 25 MeV/A and 50 MeV/A. We show close to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Botet , M. Ploszajczak , A. Chbihi , B. Borderie , D. Durand , J. Frankland

We study the effect of intrinsic fluctuations of the proton saturation momentum scale on event-by-event rapidity distributions. Saturation scale fluctuations generate an asymmetry in the single particle rapidity distribution in each event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-02 Adam Bzdak , Kevin Dusling

Three-dimensional, as well as one- and two-dimensional, studies of multiplicity fluctuation are performed using AMPT model to generate central Au-Au collision events at ${\sqrt s_{NN}}= 200$ GeV. Two- and three-dimensional normalized…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-01-06 Xie YiLong , Chen Gang , Wang JiangLing , Liu ZhaoHui , Wang MeiJuan

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.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-15 Jamie M. Karthein

We constrain proton structure fluctuations at small-$x$ by comparing with the HERA diffractive vector meson production data, and find that large geometric fluctuations in the proton wave function are needed. Hydrodynamical simulations of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-27 Heikki Mäntysaari , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen , Prithwish Tribedy