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Title: HADRONIC FLUCTUATIONS IN THE QGP.

Conference ·
OSTI ID:15020791

We analyze fluctuations of quark number and electric charge, in 2-flavour QCD at finite temperature and vanishing net baryon number density. In the hadronic phase we find that an enhancement of charge fluctuations arises from contributions of doubly charged hadrons to the thermodynamics. The rapid suppression of fluctuations seen in the high temperature phase suggests that in the QGP quark number and electric charge are predominantly carried by quasi-particles with the quantum numbers of quarks.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE/SC
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC02-98CH10886
OSTI ID:
15020791
Report Number(s):
BNL-75073-2005-CP; R&D Project: PO-22; YN0100000; TRN: US0504594
Resource Relation:
Conference: QUARK MATTER 2005 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NUCLEUS-NUCLEUS COLLISIONS; BUDAPEST, HUNGARY; 20050804 through 20050809
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English