Charge conservation and higher moments of charge fluctuations

S Pratt, R Steinhorst - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
Higher moments of distributions of net charge and baryon number in heavy-ion collisions
have been proposed as signals of fundamental QCD phase transitions. In order to better …

Speed of sound and baryon cumulants in heavy-ion collisions

A Sorensen, D Oliinychenko, V Koch, L McLerran - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
We present a method that may allow an estimate of the value of the speed of sound as well
as its logarithmic derivative with respect to the baryon number density in matter created in …

Baryon fluctuations and the QCD phase transition

D Bower, S Gavin - Physical Review C, 2001 - APS
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 …

Third moments of conserved charges as probes of QCD phase structure

M Asakawa, S Ejiri, M Kitazawa - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
The third moments of conserved charges, the baryon and electric charge numbers, and
energy, as well as their mixed moments, carry more information on the state around the QCD …

Impact of hadronic interactions and conservation laws on cumulants of conserved charges in a dynamical model

J Hammelmann, H Elfner - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
Understanding the phase diagram of QCD by measuring fluctuations of conserved charges
in heavy-ion collision is one of the main goals of the beam energy scan program at the BNL …

Relating measurable correlations in heavy ion collisions to bulk properties of equilibrated QCD matter

S Pratt, C Young - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
To compare theoretical calculations of thermal fluctuations of conserved quantities, such as
charge susceptibilities or specific heat, to experimentally measured correlations and …

Comment onCharged Particle Ratio Fluctuation as a Signal for Quark-Gluon Plasma'andFluctuation Probes of Quark Deconfinement'

M Gazdzicki, S Mrowczynski - arXiv preprint nucl-th/0012094, 2000 - arxiv.org
Charge fluctuations studied on event-by-event basis have been recently suggested to
provide a signal of the equilibrium quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions at …

Methods for the study of particle production fluctuations

C Pruneau, S Gavin, S Voloshin - Physical Review C, 2002 - APS
We discuss various measures of net charge (conserved quantities) fluctuations proposed for
the identification of critical phenomena in heavy ion collisions. We show the dynamical …

A machine learning study on spinodal clumping in heavy ion collisions

J Steinheimer, LG Pang, K Zhou, V Koch, J Randrup… - Nuclear Physics A, 2021 - Elsevier
Possible observables of baryon number clustering due to the instabilities occurring at a first
order QCD phase transition are discussed. The dynamical formation of baryon clusters at a …

Toward Initial Conditions of Conserved Charges

P Carzon - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.15008, 2023 - arxiv.org
At top collider energies where baryon stopping is negligible, the initial state of heavy ion
collisions is overall charge neutral and predominantly composed of gluons. Nevertheless …