Higher Moments of Net Proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC
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Balewski, Jan T.; Betancourt, Michael Joseph; Corliss, Ross Cameron; Hays-Wehle, James Prewitt; Jones, Christopher LaDon; Kocoloski, Adam Philip; Leight, William Axel; Sakuma, Tai; Seele, Joseph Patrick; Surrow, Bernd; van Nieuwenhuizen, Gerrit J; Walker, Matthew H; Hoffman, Alan Michael; Milner, Richard G; Redwine, Robert P; ... Show more Show less
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We report the first measurements of the kurtosis (κ [kappa]), skewness (S), and variance (σ [sigma] [superscript 2]) of net-proton multiplicity (N [subscript p]-N [subscript p̅] ) distributions at midrapidity for Au+Au collisions at √sNN=19.6, 62.4, and 200 GeV corresponding to baryon chemical potentials (μ [mu] B) between 200 and 20 MeV. Our measurements of the products κ [kappa]σ [sigma][superscript 2] and Sσ [sigma], which can be related to theoretical calculations sensitive to baryon number susceptibilities and long-range correlations, are constant as functions of collision centrality. We compare these products with results from lattice QCD and various models without a critical point and study the √sNN dependence of κ [kappa] σ [sigma] [superscript 2]. From the measurements at the three beam energies, we find no evidence for a critical point in the QCD phase diagram for μ [mu] [subscript B] below 200 MeV.
Date issued
2010-07Department
Bates Linear Accelerator Center; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical review letters
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American Physical Society
Citation
Aggarwal, M. et al. “Higher Moments of Net Proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC.” Physical Review Letters 105.2 (2010): n. pag. © 2010 The American Physical Society
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0031-9007