Fluctuation Probes of Quark Deconfinement

Journal Article · Mon Sep 04 04:00:00 EDT 2000 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2072· OSTI ID:20217635

Asakawa, Masayuki ^[1]; Heinz, Ulrich ^[2]; Mueller, Berndt ^[3]

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1. Department of Physic, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, (Japan)
2. Theoretical Physics Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, (Switzerland)
3. Department of Physic, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0305 (United States)

The size of the average fluctuations of net baryon number and electric charge in a finite volume of hadronic matter differs widely between the confined and deconfined phases. These differences may be exploited as indicators of the formation of a quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, because fluctuations created in the initial state survive until freeze-out due to the rapid expansion of the hot fireball. (c) 2000 The American Physical Society.

• OSTI ID: 20217635
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 85; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
BARYON NUMBER
ELECTRIC CHARGES
FLUCTUATIONS
HADRONS
HEAVY ION REACTIONS
NUCLEAR MATTER
QUARK-GLUON INTERACTIONS
THEORETICAL DATA