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We describe how the study of resonances and fluctuations can help constrain the thermal and chemical freezeout properties of the fireball created in heavy ion collisions. This review is based on [1-5].

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Giorgio Torrieri

Event-by-event fluctuations in the initial conditions for a hydrodynamical description of heavy-ion collisions are characterized. We propose a Bessel-Fourier decomposition with respect to the azimuthal angle, the radius in the transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-30 Stefan Floerchinger , Urs Achim Wiedemann

Experimental data are presented on particle correlations and fluctuations in various high-energy multiparticle collisions, with special emphasis on evidence for scaling-law evolution in small phase-space domains. The notions of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 E. A. De Wolf , I. M. Dremin , W. Kittel

Coupled systems in mesoscopic regime are of interest as charge fluctuation between the sub-systems will depend on electron-electron interactions and will play a dominant role in determining their thermodynamic properties. We study some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 P. Singha Deo , P. Koskinen , M. Manninen

In this talk we present results obtained when fluid dynamical fluctuations are included in relativistic $3+1$ dimensional viscous fluid dynamics. We discuss effects of the interactions of fluctuations due to nonlinearities and the cutoff…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-13 Marlene Nahrgang , Marcus Bluhm , Thomas Schäfer , Steffen Bass

We summarize recent significant progress in the development of a first-principles formalism to describe the formation and evolution of matter in very high energy heavy ion collisions. The key role of quantum fluctuations both before and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Kevin Dusling , Francois Gelis , Raju Venugopalan

The universal theory of order parameter fluctuations (delta scaling laws) is applied to a wide range of intermediate energy heavy-ion collision data obtained with INDRA. This systematic study confirms that the observed fragment production…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-15 J. D. Frankland , R. Bougault , A. Chbihi , S. Hudan , A. Mignon

The information on dynamical fluctuations that can be extracted from the anomalous scaling observed recently in hadron-hadron collision experiments is discussed in some detail. A parameter ``effective fluctuation strength'' is proposed to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Liu Lianshou , Fu Jinghua , Wu Yuanfang

Fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions are larger at RHIC energy than at LHC energy. This fact can be inferred from recent measurements of the fluctuations of the particle multiplicities and of elliptic flow performed at…

Volume or centrality fluctuations (CF) is one of the main uncertainties for interpreting the centrality dependence of many experimental observables. The CF is constrained by centrality selection based on particle multiplicity in a reference…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-24 Mingliang Zhou , Jiangyong Jia

I present an overview of recent theoretical results on fluctuations of conserved charges in heavy-ion collisions obtained in relativistic hydrodynamics and molecular dynamics frameworks. In particular, I discuss the constraints on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Volodymyr Vovchenko

The event-by-event charge fluctuation measurements are proposed to provide the signature of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions. Measure of dynamical charge fluctuations is expected to carry information of initial fractional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-07 Bhanu Sharma , P. K. Sahu

This work is about fluctuations of the surface charge between two media with distinct dielectric functions. The long-range correlation of the surface charge fluctuations is treated classically and quantum mechanically, in the non-retarded…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-17 Ladislav Samaj , Bernard Jancovici

We investigate the centrality dependence of the pT-correlations in the event-by-event analysis of relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC made recently by the PHENIX and STAR Collaborations. We notice that sigma^2 dynamical scales to a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Wojciech Broniowski , Piotr Bozek , Wojciech Florkowski , Brigitte Hiller

Event by event fluctuations of particle multiplicities and their ratios are considered to be sensitive probes to the exotic phenomena in high energy heavy ion collisions like phase transtion or the occurence of critical point. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-22 S. Ahmad , M. Farooq , S. Bashir , H. jahan , N. Ahmad , S. Chattopadhyay

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

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

Fluctuations of various observables in heavy-ion collisions at ultra-relativistic energies have been extensively studied as they provide important signals regarding the formation of a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Because of the large number of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-03-23 Maitreyee Mukherjee

Hadron spectra and elliptic flow in high-energy heavy-ion collisions are studied within a (3+1)D ideal hydrodynamic model with fluctuating initial conditions given by the AMPT Monte Carlo model. Results from event-by-event simulations are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-09-20 Longgang Pang , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

We show effects of the event-by-event fluctuation of the initial conditions (IC) in hydrodynamic description of high-energy nuclear collisions on some observables. Such IC produce not only fluctuations in observables but, due to their bumpy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-24 Y. Hama , R. P. G. Andrade , F. Grassi , W. -L. Qian , T. Kodama