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New results on event-by-event ratio fluctuations in Pb+Pb collisions at CERN SPS energies

Event-by-event fluctuations of produced particle multiplicities are believed to be sensitive to a deconfinement phase transition and the critical point of strongly interacting matter. The NA49 collaboration has conducted a systematic study of various fluctuation observables. In this contribution, re...

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Autor principal: Schuster, Tim
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/38/12/124096
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1366509
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Sumario:Event-by-event fluctuations of produced particle multiplicities are believed to be sensitive to a deconfinement phase transition and the critical point of strongly interacting matter. The NA49 collaboration has conducted a systematic study of various fluctuation observables. In this contribution, recent results on hadron ratio fluctuations in central Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 6.3 to 17.3 GeV are reported. These results are complemented by the centrality dependence of hadron ratio fluctuations at sqrt(s_NN) = 17.3 GeV. A universal scaling was found, describing the energy and centrality dependence of the (K++ K-)/({\pi}++ {\pi}-) and (p + pbar)/({\pi}++ {\pi}-) ratio fluctuations purely by a change in the observed average hadron multiplicities. This scaling is broken for the fluctuations of the (K+ + K-)/(p + pbar) and K+/p ratios, possibly hinting at a change in the baryon number-strangeness correlation.