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In this study, we analyze the recently proposed charge transfer fluctuations within a finite pseudo-rapidity space. As the charge transfer fluctuation is a measure of the local charge correlation length, it is capable of detecting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Sangyong Jeon , Lijun Shi

In this work, the charge transfer fluctuation which was previously used for $pp$ collisions is proposed for relativistic heavy-ion collisions as a QGP probe. We propose the appearance of a local minimum at midrapidity for the charge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Lijun Shi , Sangyong Jeon

Charge fluctuations provide a possible signature for the existence of the de-confined Quark Gluon Plasma phase (QGP). Being sensitive to the square of the charges, fluctuations in QGP, with fractionally charged partons, are significantly…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 Satyajit Jena for ALICE Collaboration

We revisit the D-measure of event-by-event net-electric charge fluctuations, an idea first introduced over 20 years ago as a potential signature for the presence of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions. We developed a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-22 Jonathan Parra , Roman Poberezhniuk , Volker Koch , Claudia Ratti , Volodymyr Vovchenko

We present a subset of experimental results on charge fluctuation from the heavy-ion collisions to search for phase transition and location of critical point in the QCD phase diagram. Measurements from the heavy-ion experiments at the SPS…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-01-24 D. K. Mishra , P. Garg , P. K. Netrakanti , L. M. Pant , A. K. Mohanty

The D-measure of net-charge fluctuations quantifies the variance of net charge in strongly interacting matter. It was introduced over 20 years ago as a potential signal of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions, where it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-10 Jonathan Parra , Roman Poberezhniuk , Volker Koch , Claudia Ratti , Volodymyr Vovchenko

We critically discuss recent suggestion to use long-range modes of charge (electric or baryon) fluctuations as a signal for the presence of Quark-Gluon Plasma at the early stages of a heavy ion collision. We evaluate the rate of diffusion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 E. V. Shuryak , M. A. Stephanov

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

The study of correlations between opposite-sign charge pairs and particle-ratio fluctuations can provide a powerful tool to probe the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). It has been suggested that the existence of a QCD phase…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-04-09 Hui Wang

We address the role of fluctuations in strongly interacting matter during the dense stages of a heavy-ion collision through its electromagnetic emission. Fluctuations of isospin charge are considered in a thermal system at rest as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Prakash , R. Rapp , J. Wambach , I. Zahed

Charge fluctuations observed in early fixed-target proton-proton experiments are consistent with string models. In central heavy ion events the picture can change in two ways: strings can interact and find new ways to hadronize or they can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Fritz W. Bopp , Johannes Ranft

We analyze fluctuations of quark number and electric charge, in 2-flavour QCD at finite temperature and vanishing net baryon number density. In the hadronic phase we find that an enhancement of charge fluctuations arises from contributions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Karsch , S. Ejiri , K. Redlich

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

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

Comparing quantities to analyze charged fluctuations in heavy ion experiments the dispersion of the charges in a central rapidity box was found to be best suited. Various energies and different nuclear sizes are considered in an explicit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Fritz W. Bopp , Johannes Ranft

A new thermodynamic state function is introduced to describe the thermodynamics relevant for the mean transverse momentum fluctuations of charged particles in heavy-ion collisions, which allows us to compute the temperature fluctuations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Jinhui Chen , Wei-jie Fu , Shi Yin , Chunjian Zhang

We discuss the properties of hadronic fluctuations, i.e. fluctuations of net quark and isospin numbers as well as electric charge, in the vicinity of the QCD transition in isospin-symmetric matter at vanishing quark chemical potential. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Ejiri , F. Karsch , K. Redlich

We report the first measurement of the net-charge fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV, measured with the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The dynamical fluctuations per unit entropy are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-06-23 ALICE Collaboration

The dynamical charge fluctuations have been studied in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions by using hadronic model simulations, such as UrQMD and HIJING. The evolution of fluctuations has been calculated at different time steps during…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-03 Bhanu Sharma , Madan M. Aggarwal , Nihar Ranjan Sahoo , Tapan K. Nayak

We apply stochastic hydrodynamics to the study of charge density fluctuations in QCD matter undergoing Bjorken expansion. We find that the charge density correlations are given by a time integral over the history of the system, with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-06-09 B. Ling , T. Springer , M. Stephanov
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