Moments of charge fluctuations, pseudo-critical temperatures and freeze-out in heavy ion collisions

We discuss universal properties of higher order cumulants of net baryon number fluctuations and point out their relevance for the analysis of freeze-out and critical conditions in heavy ion collisions at LHC and RHIC.

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4 pages, 5 EPS files, to appear in the proceedings of Quark Matter 2011, 23-28 May 2011, Annecy, France

heavy ion: scattering
baryon number: fluctuation
charge: fluctuation
freeze-out
critical phenomena

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)
,
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(
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)
,
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)

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S. Ejiri
(
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- Tokyo U.
)
,
F. Karsch
(
- Bielefeld U. and
- Brookhaven
)
,
K. Redlich
(
- Wroclaw U. and
- CERN
)

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e-Print:
- hep-ph/0509051
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DOI:
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M. Cheng
(
- Columbia U.
)
,
P. Hegde
(
- SUNY, Stony Brook and
- Brookhaven
)
,
C. Jung
(
- Brookhaven
)
,
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(
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)
,
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(
- Bielefeld U.
)

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STAR

Collaboration

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M.M. Aggarwal
(
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)

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e-Print:
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DOI:
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Probing freeze-out conditions in heavy ion collisions with moments of charge fluctuations

Frithjof Karsch
(
- Bielefeld U. and
- Brookhaven
)
,
Krzysztof Redlich
(
- Wroclaw U. and
- CERN
)

- Phys.Lett.B 695 (2011) 136-142
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e-Print:
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DOI:
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Lattice QCD predictions for shapes of event distributions along the freezeout curve in heavy-ion collisions

R.V. Gavai
(
- Tata Inst.
)
,
Sourendu Gupta
(
- Tata Inst.
)

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e-Print:
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DOI:
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Net-baryon number fluctuations in (2+1)-flavor QCD

Christian Schmidt
(
- Frankfurt U., FIAS
)

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e-Print:
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DOI:
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Fluctuations as probe of the QCD phase transition and freeze-out in heavy ion collisions at LHC and RHIC

B. Friman
(
- Darmstadt, GSI
)
,
F. Karsch
(
- Bielefeld U. and
- Brookhaven
)
,
K. Redlich
(
- Wroclaw U. and
- Darmstadt, EMMI
)
,
V. Skokov
(
- Darmstadt, GSI
)

- Eur.Phys.J.C 71 (2011) 1694
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e-Print:
- 1103.3511
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DOI:
- 10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1694-2

Moments of charge fluctuations, pseudo-critical temperatures and freeze-out in heavy ion collisions

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Hadronic fluctuations at the QCD phase transition

Baryon Number, Strangeness and Electric Charge Fluctuations in QCD at High Temperature

Higher Moments of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC

Probing freeze-out conditions in heavy ion collisions with moments of charge fluctuations

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