The ALICE experiment: a journey through QCD

ALICE Collaboration alice-publications@ cern … - The European Physical …, 2024 - Springer
The ALICE experiment was proposed in 1993, to study strongly-interacting matter at extreme
energy densities and temperatures. This proposal entailed a comprehensive investigation of …

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 …

The ALICE experiment: a journey through QCD

ALICE collaboration - European Physical Journal C, 2024 - jyx.jyu.fi
The ALICE experiment was proposed in 1993, to study strongly-interacting matter at extreme
energy densities and temperatures. This proposal entailed a comprehensive investigation of …

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 …

Measurements of Proton High-Order Cumulants in Collisions and Implications for the QCD Critical Point

MS Abdallah, BE Aboona, J Adam, L Adamczyk… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
We report cumulants of the proton multiplicity distribution from dedicated fixed-target Au+ Au
collisions at s NN= 3.0 GeV, measured by the STAR experiment in the kinematic acceptance …

Skewness, kurtosis, and the fifth and sixth order cumulants of net baryon-number distributions from lattice QCD confront high-statistics STAR data

A Bazavov, D Bollweg, HT Ding, P Enns, J Goswami… - Physical review D, 2020 - APS
We present new results on up to sixth-order cumulants of net baryon-number fluctuations at
small values of the baryon chemical potential, μ B, obtained in lattice QCD calculations with …

Finite-density lattice QCD and sign problem: Current status and open problems

K Nagata - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Finite-density lattice QCD aims for the first-principle study of QCD at finite density, which
describes the system consisting of many quarks. The main targets are systems such as …

Thermodynamics of strong-interaction matter from Lattice QCD

HT Ding, F Karsch, S Mukherjee - International Journal of Modern …, 2015 - World Scientific
We review results from lattice QCD calculations on the thermodynamics of strong-interaction
matter with emphasis on input these calculations can provide to the exploration of the phase …

Bulk properties of the medium produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions from the beam energy scan program

L Adamczyk, JK Adkins, G Agakishiev, MM Aggarwal… - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
We present measurements of bulk properties of the matter produced in Au+ Au collisions at s
NN= 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV using identified hadrons (π±, K±, p, and p¯) from the …

Beam Energy Dependence of Moments of the Net-Charge Multiplicity Distributions in Collisions at RHIC

L Adamczyk, JK Adkins, G Agakishiev, MM Aggarwal… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We report the first measurements of the moments—mean (M), variance (σ 2), skewness (S),
and kurtosis (κ)—of the net-charge multiplicity distributions at midrapidity in Au+ Au …