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Baryon number and electric charge fluctuations in Pb+Pb collisions at relativistic energies

Journal Article · · Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
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  1. Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev (Ukraine)
  2. Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt (Germany)
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Event-by-event fluctuations of the net baryon number and electric charge in nucleus-nucleus collisions are studied in Pb+Pb at SPS energies within the Hadron-String Dynamics (HSD) transport model. We reveal an important role of the fluctuations in the number of target nucleon participants. They strongly influence all measured fluctuations even in the samples of events with rather rigid centrality trigger. This fact can be used to check different scenarios of nucleus-nucleus collisions by measuring the multiplicity fluctuations as a function of collision centrality in fixed kinematical regions of the projectile and target hemispheres. The HSD results for the event-by-event fluctuations of electric charge in central collisions at 20A,30A,40A,80A, and 158A GeV are in a good agreement with the NA49 experimental data and considerably larger than expected in a quark-gluon plasma. This demonstrates that the distortions of the initial fluctuations by the hadronization phase and, in particular, by the final resonance decays dominate the observable fluctuations.
OSTI ID:
20864233
Journal Information:
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Journal Name: Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 74; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCAN
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
BARYON NUMBER
ELECTRIC CHARGES
FLUCTUATIONS
GEV RANGE
LEAD 208 REACTIONS
LEAD 208 TARGET
MULTIPLICITY
NUCLEONS
PARTICLE DECAY
QUARK MATTER
RELATIVISTIC RANGE
RESONANCE PARTICLES
STRING MODELS
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