Measurements of charged-particle multiplicity dependence of higher-order net-proton cumulants in 𝑝+𝑝 collisions at √𝑠 = 200 GeV from STAR at RHIC

Authors

STAR Collaboration

Abstract

We report on the charged-particle multiplicity dependence of net-proton cumulant ratios up to sixth order from√𝑠 = 200 GeV 𝑝+𝑝 collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The measured ratios 𝐶4 ∕𝐶2, 𝐶5 ∕𝐶1, and 𝐶6 ∕𝐶2 decrease with increased charged-particle multiplicity and rapidity acceptance. Neither the Skellam baselines nor PYTHIA8 calculations account for the observed multiplicity dependence. In addition, the ratios 𝐶5 ∕𝐶1 and 𝐶6 ∕𝐶2 approach negative values in the highest-multiplicity events, which implies that thermalized QCD matter may be formed in 𝑝+𝑝 collisions.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2024

Notes/Citation Information

0370-2693/© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. Funded by SCOAP³. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2024.138966

Funding Information

We thank the RHIC Operations Group and RCF at BNL, the NERSC Center at LBNL, and the Open Science Grid consortium for providing resources and support. This work was supported in part by the Office of Nuclear Physics within the U.S. DOE Office of Science, the U.S. National Science Foundation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Academy of Science, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and the Chinese Ministry of Education, the Higher Education Sprout Project by Ministry of Education at NCKU, the National Research Foundation of Korea, Czech Science Foundation and Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office, New National Excellency Programme of the Hungarian Ministry of Human Capacities, Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India, the National Science Centre and WUT ID-UB of Poland, the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, German Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF), Helmholtz Association, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID) of Chile.

Repository Citation

STAR Collaboration, "Measurements of charged-particle multiplicity dependence of higher-order net-proton cumulants in 𝑝+𝑝 collisions at √𝑠 = 200 GeV from STAR at RHIC" (2024). Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications. 739.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/physastron_facpub/739