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Title: Correcting event-by-event fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions for exact global conservation laws with the generalized subensemble acceptance method

Journal Article · · Physical Review C

This paper introduces the subensemble acceptance method 2.0 (SAM-2.0) - a procedure to correct cumulants of a random number distribution inside a subsystem for the effect of exact global conservation of a conserved quantity to which this number is correlated, with applications to measurements of event-by-event fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions. The method expresses the corrected cumulants in terms of the cumulants inside and outside the subsystem that are not subject to the exact conservation. The derivation assumes that all probability distributions associated with the cumulants are peaked at the mean values but are otherwise of arbitrary shape. The formalism reduces to the original SAM when applied to a coordinate space subvolume of a uniform thermal system. As the new method is restricted neither to the uniform systems nor to the coordinate space, it is applicable to fluctuations measured in heavy-ion collisions at various collision energies in different momentum space acceptances. The SAM-2.0 thus brings the experimental measurements and theoretical calculations of event-by-event fluctuations closer together, as the latter are typically performed without the account of exact global conservation.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231231; AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1838411
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1856507
Journal Information:
Physical Review C, Journal Name: Physical Review C Vol. 105 Journal Issue: 1; ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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