Abstract: (Elsevier)
We discuss the next-to-leading order Taylor expansion of ratios of cumulants of net-baryon number fluctuations. We focus on the relation between the skewness ratio, SBσB≡χ3B/χ1B , and the kurtosis ratio, κBσB2≡χ4B/χ2B . We show that differences in these two cumulant ratios are small for small values of the baryon chemical potential. The next-to-leading order correction to κBσB2 however is approximately three times larger than that for SBσB . The former thus drops much more rapidly with increasing beam energy, sNN . We argue that these generic patterns are consistent with current data on cumulants of net-proton number fluctuations measured by the STAR Collaboration at sNN≥19.6 GeV .
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  • 4 pages, 4 figures, contribution to the Quark Matter 2015 proceedings
  • Quark-Gluon Plasma
  • Lattice QCD
  • Heavy Ion Collisions
  • beam: energy
  • fluctuation: measured
  • charge: fluctuation
  • potential: chemical
  • lattice field theory
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • higher-order: 1