Abstract
A search for the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) critical point was performed by the STAR experiment at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, using dynamical fluctuations of unlike particle pairs. Heavy ion collisions were studied over a large range of collision energies with homogeneous acceptance and excellent particle identification, covering a significant range in the QCD phase diagram where a critical point may be located. Dynamical Kπ, pπ, and Kp fluctuations as measured by the STAR experiment in central 0–5% Au + Au collisions from center-of-mass collision energies √sNN=7.7 to 200 GeV are presented. The observable νdyn was used to quantify the magnitude of the dynamical fluctuations in event-by-event measurements of the Kπ, pπ, and Kp pairs. The energy dependences of these fluctuations from central 0–5% Au + Au collisions all demonstrate a smooth evolution with collision energy.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-2015
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.92.021901
Funding Information
This work was supported in part by the Office of Nuclear Physicswithin theUSDOEOffice of Science, theU.S. NSF, CNRS/IN2P3, FAPESP CNPq of Brazil, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the NNSFC, theMoST of China (973 Program No. 2014CB845400), CAS, the MoE of China, the Korean Research Foundation, GA and MSMT of the Czech Republic, FIAS of Germany, DAE, DST, and CSIR of India, the National Science Centre of Poland, National Research Foundation (NRF-2012004024), the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, and RosAtom of Russia.
Repository Citation
Adkins, James K.; Fatemi, Renee H.; Ramachandran, Suvarna; Adamczyk, L.; Agakishiev, G.; Aggarwal, M. M.; Ahammed, Z.; Alekseev, I.; Alford, J.; Aparin, A.; Arkhipkin, D.; Aschenauer, E. C.; and Averichev, G. S., "Energy Dependence of Kπ, pπ, and Kp Fluctuations in Au + Au Collisions from √sNN=7.7 to 200 GeV" (2015). Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications. 386.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/physastron_facpub/386
Notes/Citation Information
Published in Physical Review C, v. 92, no. 2, article 021901, p. 1-7.
©2015 American Physical Society
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Due to the large number of authors involved, only the first 10 and the ones affiliated with the University of Kentucky are listed in the author section above. The authors of this article are collectively known as STAR Collaboration. To see a full list of authors, please download this article or visit: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.92.021901.