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Mapping the QCD phase diagram with statistics friendly distributions

Nuclear Theory 2019-11-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We demonstrate that the multiplicity distribution of a system located in the vicinity of a first-order phase transition can be successfully measured in terms of its factorial cumulants with a surprisingly small number of events. This finding has direct implications for the experimental search of a QCD phase transition conjectured to be located in the high baryon density region of the QCD phase diagram.

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@article{arxiv.1811.04456,
  title  = {Mapping the QCD phase diagram with statistics friendly distributions},
  author = {Adam Bzdak and Volker Koch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.04456},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 figures; comments added

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