Energy Dependence of Moments of Net-Proton, Net-Kaon, and Net-Charge Multiplicity Distributions at STAR
Creators
- 1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, US (United States)
- 2. Key Laboratory of Quark and Lepton Physics (MOE) and Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079 (China)
Description
One of the main goals of the RHIC Beam Energy Scan (BES) program is to study the QCD phase structure, which includes the search for the QCD critical point, over a wide range of chemical potential (μB). Theoretical calculations predict that fluctuations of conserved quantities, such as baryon number (B), charge (Q), and strangeness (S), are sensitive to the correlation length of the dynamical system. Experimentally, higher moments of multiplicity distributions have been utilized to search for the QCD critical point in heavy-ion collisions. In this paper, we report recent efficiency-corrected cumulants and cumulants ratios of the net- proton, net-kaon, and net-charge multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4, and 200 GeV collected in the years 2010, 2011, and 2014 with STAR at RHIC. The centrality and energy dependence of the cumulants up to the fourth order, as well as their ratios, are presented. Furthermore, the comparisons with baseline calculations (Poisson) and non-critical-point models (UrQMD) will also be discussed. (paper)
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/736/1/012002Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online)
- Journal Volume
- 736
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- [5 p.]
- ISSN
- 1742-6596
Conference
- Title
- 32. winter workshop on nuclear dynamics
- Acronym
- WWND2016
- Dates
- 28 Feb - 5 Mar 2016
- Place
- Guadalupe (Costa Rica)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 48100305
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BARYON NUMBER; BROOKHAVEN RHIC; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; CORRELATIONS; ENERGY DEPENDENCE; FLUCTUATIONS; GEV RANGE; GOLD 197 BEAMS; GOLD 197 REACTIONS; KAONS; MULTIPLICITY; PROTONS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; STAR DETECTOR; STRANGENESS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; BARYONS; BEAMS; BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; EVALUATION; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; HADRONS; HEAVY ION ACCELERATORS; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; ION BEAMS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MESONS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUCLEONS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RADIATION DETECTORS; STORAGE RINGS; STRANGE MESONS; STRANGE PARTICLES; VARIATIONS