Probing QCD critical fluctuations from light nuclei production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

KJ Sun, LW Chen, CM Ko, Z Xu - Physics Letters B, 2017 - Elsevier
Based on the coalescence model for light nuclei production, we show that the yield ratio O
pdt= NH 3 N p/N d 2 of p, d, and 3 H in heavy-ion collisions is sensitive to the neutron …

Light nuclei production as a probe of the QCD phase diagram

KJ Sun, LW Chen, CM Ko, J Pu, Z Xu - Physics Letters B, 2018 - Elsevier
It is generally believed that the quark-hadron transition at small values of baryon chemical
potentials μ B is a crossover but changes to a first-order phase transition with an associated …

Effects of QCD critical point on light nuclei production

KJ Sun, F Li, CM Ko - Physics Letters B, 2021 - Elsevier
Using the nucleon coalescence model, which can naturally take into account the
correlations in the nucleon density distribution, we study the effects of QCD critical point on …

Multiplicity scaling of light nuclei production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

W Zhao, K Sun, CM Ko, X Luo - Physics Letters B, 2021 - Elsevier
Using the nucleon coalescence model based on kinetic freeze-out nucleons from the 3D
MUSIC+ UrQMD and the 2D VISHNU hybrid model with a crossover equation of state, we …

A study of the properties of the QCD phase diagram in high-energy nuclear collisions

X Luo, S Shi, N Xu, Y Zhang - Particles, 2020 - mdpi.com
With the aim of understanding the phase structure of nuclear matter created in high-energy
nuclear collisions at finite baryon density, a beam energy scan program has been carried …

Light-nuclei production and search for the QCD critical point

E Shuryak, JM Torres-Rincon - The European Physical Journal A, 2020 - Springer
We discuss the potential of light-nuclei measurements in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate
energies for the search of the hypothetical QCD critical end-point. A previous proposal …

Baryon preclustering at the freeze-out of heavy-ion collisions and light-nuclei production

E Shuryak, JM Torres-Rincon - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
Following the idea of nucleon clustering and light-nuclei production in relativistic heavy-ion
collisions close to the QCD critical-end point, we address the quantum effects affecting the …

Fluctuations as probe of the QCD phase transition and freeze-out in heavy ion collisions at LHC and RHIC

B Friman, F Karsch, K Redlich, V Skokov - The European Physical Journal …, 2011 - Springer
We discuss the relevance of higher order cumulants of net baryon number fluctuations for
the analysis of freeze-out and critical conditions in heavy ion collisions at LHC and RHIC …

Search for the QCD critical point in high energy nuclear collisions

A Pandav, D Mallick, B Mohanty - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
QCD critical point is a landmark region in the QCD phase diagram outlined by temperature
as a function of baryon chemical potential. To the right of this second-order phase transition …

Sensitivity of multiplicity fluctuations to freeze-out conditions in heavy ion collisions

P Alba, R Bellwied, M Bluhm, V Mantovani Sarti… - Physical Review C, 2015 - APS
We study the sensitivity of the higher-order moments of produced particle multiplicity
distributions to the chemical freeze-out parameters in relativistic heavy ion collisions using …