Search for the QCD critical point with fluctuations of conserved quantities in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC: an overview

X Luo, N Xu - Nuclear Science and Techniques, 2017 - Springer
Fluctuations of conserved quantities, such as baryon, electric charge, and strangeness
number, are sensitive observables in relativistic heavy-ion collisions to probe the QCD …

Lattice QCD and heavy ion collisions: a review of recent progress

C Ratti - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In the last few years, numerical simulations of Quantum chromodynamics on the lattice have
reached a new level of accuracy. A wide range of thermodynamic quantities is now available …

Cumulants and correlation functions of net-proton, proton, and antiproton multiplicity distributions in collisions at energies available at the BNL Relativistic …

MS Abdallah, J Adam, L Adamczyk, JR Adams… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
We report a systematic measurement of cumulants, C n, for net-proton, proton, and
antiproton multiplicity distributions, and correlation functions, κ n, for proton and antiproton …

Theoretical and experimental constraints for the equation of state of dense and hot matter

R Kumar, V Dexheimer, J Jahan, J Noronha… - Living Reviews in …, 2024 - Springer
This review aims at providing an extensive discussion of modern constraints relevant for
dense and hot strongly interacting matter. It includes theoretical first-principle results from …

Collision energy dependence of moments of net-kaon multiplicity distributions at RHIC

L Adamczyk, JR Adams, JK Adkins, G Agakishiev… - Physics Letters B, 2018 - Elsevier
Fluctuations of conserved quantities such as baryon number, charge, and strangeness are
sensitive to the correlation length of the hot and dense matter created in relativistic heavy …

Dynamics of critical fluctuations: Theory–phenomenology–heavy-ion collisions

M Bluhm, A Kalweit, M Nahrgang, M Arslandok… - Nuclear Physics A, 2020 - Elsevier
This report summarizes the presentations and discussions during the Rapid Reaction Task
Force “Dynamics of critical fluctuations: Theory–phenomenology–heavy-ion collisions” …

Hyper-order baryon number fluctuations at finite temperature and density

W Fu, X Luo, JM Pawlowski, F Rennecke, R Wen, S Yin - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Fluctuations of conserved charges are sensitive to the QCD phase transition and a possible
critical end point in the phase diagram at finite density. In this work, we compute the baryon …

Thermal-FIST: A package for heavy-ion collisions and hadronic equation of state

V Vovchenko, H Stoecker - Computer Physics Communications, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermal-FIST 1 is a C++ package designed for convenient general-purpose physics
analysis within the family of hadron resonance gas (HRG) models. This mainly includes the …

Off-diagonal correlators of conserved charges from lattice QCD and how to relate them to experiment

R Bellwied, S Borsanyi, Z Fodor, JN Guenther… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Like fluctuations, nondiagonal correlators of conserved charges provide a tool for the study
of chemical freeze-out in heavy ion collisions. They can be calculated in thermal equilibrium …

Critical lensing and kurtosis near a critical point in the QCD phase diagram in and out of equilibrium

T Dore, JM Karthein, I Long, D Mroczek… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
In this work, we study the lensing effect of the QCD critical point on hydrodynamic
trajectories and its consequences on the net-proton kurtosis κ 4. Including critical behavior …