Critical fluctuations of the proton density in A+A collisions at $158A$ GeV
| Autor: | Anticic, T., Baatar, B., Barna, D., Bartke, J., Beck, J., Betev, L., Białkowska, H., Blume, C., Bogusz, M., Boimska, B., Book, J., Botje, M., Bunčić, P., Cetner, T., Christakoglou, P., Chung, P., Chvala, O., Cramer, J., Eckardt, V., Fodor, Z., Foka, P., Friese, V., Gaździcki, M., Grebieszkow, K., Höhne, C., Kadija, K., Karev, A., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kowalski, M., Kresan, D., Laszlo, A., Lacey, R., van Leeuwen, M., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Makariev, M., Malakhov, A. I., Mateev, M., Melkumov, G. L., Mitrovski, M., Mrówczyński, St., Pálla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Peryt, W., Pluta, J., Prindle, D., Pühlhofer, F., Renfordt, R., Roland, C., Roland, G., Rustamov, A., Rybczyński, M., Rybicki, A., Sandoval, A., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T., Seyboth, P., Siklér, F., Skrzypczak, E., Slodkowski, M., Stefanek, G., Stock, R., Ströbele, H., Susa, T., Szuba, M., Varga, D., Vassiliou, M., Veres, G. I., Vesztergombi, G., Vranić, D., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarć, A., Antoniou, N. G., Davis, N., Diakonos, F. K. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | We look for fluctuations expected for the QCD critical point using an intermittency analysis in the transverse momentum phase space of protons produced around midrapidity in the 12.5\% most central C+C, Si+Si and Pb+Pb collisions at the maximum SPS energy of 158$A$~GeV. We find evidence of power-law fluctuations for the Si+Si data. The fitted power-law exponent $\phi_{2} = 0.96^{+0.38}_{-0.25}\text{ (stat.)}$ $\pm 0.16\text{ (syst.)}$ is consistent with the va\-lue expected for critical fluctuations. Power-law fluctuations had previously also been observed in low-mass $\pi^+ \pi^-$ pairs in the same Si+Si collisions. Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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