Higher order cumulants of electric charge and strangeness fluctuations on the crossover line

Oct 29, 2020
10 pages
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  • Acta Phys.Polon.B 14 (2021) 373
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present lattice QCD calculations of higher order cumulants of electric charge distributions for small baryon chemical potentials μB\mu_B by using up to NNNLO Taylor expansions. Ratios of these cumulants are evaluated on the pseudo-critical line, Tpc(μB)T_{pc}(\mu_B), of the chiral transition and compared to corresponding measurements in heavy ion collision experiments by the STAR and PHENIX Collaborations. We demonstrate that these comparisons give strong constraints on freeze-out parameters. Furthermore, we use strangeness fluctuation observables to compute the ratio μS/μB\mu_S/\mu_B on the crossover line and compare it to μS/μB\mu_S/\mu_B at freeze-out stemming from fits to strange baryon yields measured by the STAR Collaboration.
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  • 10 pages, 7 figures, Presented at Criticality in QCD and the Hadron Resonance Gas, 29-31 July 2020, Wroclaw Poland
  • strangeness: fluctuation
  • potential: chemical
  • transition: chiral
  • charge: electric
  • yield: measured
  • hyperon: yield
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • higher-order
  • freeze-out
  • STAR