Measurements of proton high-order cumulants in √sNN=3  GeV Au+Au collisions and implications for the QCD critical point

We report cumulants of the proton multiplicity distribution from dedicated fixed-target Au+Au collisions at √sNN=3.0  GeV, measured by the STAR experiment in the kinematic acceptance of rapidity (y) and transverse momentum (pT) within −0.5<y<0 and 0.4<pT<2.0  GeV/c. In the most central 0...

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Main Authors:	Abdallah, Mohamed Samy (Author) , Deppner, Ingo Martin (Author) , Herrmann, Norbert (Author) , Söhngen, Yannick (Author) , Weidenkaff, Philipp (Author)
Corporate Author:	STAR Collaboration (Author)
Format:	Article (Journal)
Language:	English
Published:	20 May 2022
In:	Physical review letters Year: 2022, Volume: 128, Issue: 20, Pages: 1-9
ISSN:	1079-7114
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.202303
Online Access:	Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.202303 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.202303
Author Notes:	M.S. Abdallah, B.E. Aboona, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk, J.R. Adams, J.K. Adkins, G. Agakishiev, I. Aggarwal, M.M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, I. Alekseev, D.M. Anderson, A. Aparin, E.C. Aschenauer, M.U. Ashraf, F.G. Atetalla, A. Attri, G.S. Averichev, V. Bairathi, W. Baker, J.G. Ball Cap, K. Barish, A. Behera, R. Bellwied, P. Bhagat, A. Bhasin, J. Bielcik, J. Bielcikova, I.G. Bordyuzhin, J.D. Brandenburg, A.V. Brandin, I. Bunzarov, X.Z. Cai, H. Caines, M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, D. Cebra, I. Chakaberia, P. Chaloupka, B.K. Chan, F-H. Chang, Z. Chang, N. Chankova-Bunzarova, A. Chatterjee, S. Chattopadhyay, D. Chen, J. Chen, J.H. Chen, X. Chen, Z. Chen, J. Cheng, M. Chevalier, S. Choudhury, W. Christie, X. Chu, H. J. Crawford, M. Csanád, M. Daugherity, T.G. Dedovich, I.M. Deppner, A.A. Derevschikov, A. Dhamija, L. Di Carlo, L. Didenko, P. Dixit, X. Dong, J.L. Drachenberg, E. Duckworth, J.C. Dunlop, N. Elsey, J. Engelage, G. Eppley, S. Esumi, O. Evdokimov, A. Ewigleben, O. Eyser, R. Fatemi, F.M. Fawzi, S. Fazio, P. Federic, J. Fedorisin, C.J. Feng, Y. Feng, P. Filip, E. Finch, Y. Fisyak, A. Francisco, C. Fu, L. Fulek, C.A. Gagliardi, T. Galatyuk, F. Geurts, N. Ghimire, A. Gibson, K. Gopal, X. Gou, D. Grosnick, A. Gupta, W. Guryn, A.I. Hamad, A. Hamed, Y. Han, S. Harabasz, M.D. Harasty, J.W. Harris, H. Harrison, S. He, W. He, X.H. He, Y. He, S. Heppelmann, S. Heppelmann, N. Herrmann, E. Hoffman, L. Holub, Y. Hu, H. Huang, H.Z. Huang, S.L. Huang, T. Huang, X. Huang, Y. Huang, T.J. Humanic, G. Igo, D. Isenhower, W.W. Jacobs, C. Jena, A. Jentsch, Y. Ji, J. Jia, K. Jiang, X. Ju, E.G. Judd, S. Kabana, M.L. Kabir, S. Kagamaster, D. Kalinkin, K. Kang, D. Kapukchyan, K. Kauder, H.W. Ke, D. Keane, A. Kechechyan, M. Kelsey, Y.V. Khyzhniak, D.P. Kikoła, C. Kim, B. Kimelman, D. Kincses, I. Kisel, A. Kiselev, A.G. Knospe, H.S. Ko, L. Kochenda, L.K. Kosarzewski, L. Kramarik, P. Kravtsov, L. Kumar, S. Kumar, R. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, J.H. Kwasizur, R. Lacey, S. Lan, J.M. Landgraf, J. Lauret, A. Lebedev, R. Lednicky, J. H. Lee, Y. H. Leung, N. Lewis, C. Li, C. Li, W. Li, X. Li, Y. Li, X. Liang, Y. Liang, R. Licenik, T. Lin, Y. Lin, M. A. Lisa, F. Liu, H. Liu, H. Liu, P. Liu, T. Liu, X. Liu, Y. Liu, Z. Liu, T. Ljubicic, W.J. Llope, R.S. Longacre, E. Loyd, N.S. Lukow, X.F. Luo, L. Ma, R. Ma, Y.G. Ma, N. Magdy, D. Mallick, S. Margetis, C. Markert, H.S. Matis, J.A. Mazer, N.G. Minaev, S. Mioduszewski, B. Mohanty, M.M. Mondal, I. Mooney, D.A. Morozov, A. Mukherjee, M. Nagy, J.D. Nam, Md. Nasim, K. Nayak, D. Neff, J.M. Nelson, D.B. Nemes, M. Nie, G. Nigmatkulov, T. Niida, R. Nishitani, L.V. Nogach, T. Nonaka, A.S. Nunes, G. Odyniec, A. Ogawa, S. Oh, V.A. Okorokov, B.S. Page, R. Pak, J. Pan, A. Pandav, A.K. Pandey, Y. Panebratsev, P. Parfenov, B. Pawlik, D. Pawlowska, C. Perkins, L. Pinsky, J. Pluta, B.R. Pokhrel, G. Ponimatkin, J. Porter, M. Posik, V. Prozorova, N.K. Pruthi, M. Przybycien, J. Putschke, H. Qiu, A. Quintero, C. Racz, S.K. Radhakrishnan, N. Raha, R.L. Ray, R. Reed, H.G. Ritter, M. Robotkova, O.V. Rogachevskiy, J.L. Romero, D. Roy, L. Ruan, J. Rusnak, A.K. Sahoo, N.R. Sahoo, H. Sako, S. Salur, J. Sandweiss, S. Sato, W.B. Schmidke, N. Schmitz, B.R. Schweid, F. Seck, J. Seger, M. Sergeeva, R. Seto, P. Seyboth, N. Shah, E. Shahaliev, P.V. Shanmuganathan, M. Shao, T. Shao, A.I. Sheikh, D.Y. Shen, S.S. Shi, Y. Shi, Q.Y. Shou, E.P. Sichtermann, R. Sikora, M. Simko, J. Singh, S. Singha, M.J. Skoby, N. Smirnov, Y. Söhngen, W. Solyst, Y. Song, P. Sorensen, H.M. Spinka, B. Srivastava, T.D.S. Stanislaus, M. Stefaniak, D.J. Stewart, M. Strikhanov, B. Stringfellow, A.A.P. Suaide, M. Sumbera, B. Summa, X.M. Sun, X. Sun, Y. Sun, Y. Sun, B. Surrow, D.N. Svirida, Z.W. Sweger, P. Szymanski, A.H. Tang, Z. Tang, A. Taranenko, T. Tarnowsky, J.H. Thomas, A.R. Timmins, D. Tlusty, T. Todoroki, M. Tokarev, C.A. Tomkiel, S. Trentalange, R.E. Tribble, P. Tribedy, S.K. Tripathy, T. Truhlar, B.A. Trzeciak, O.D. Tsai, Z. Tu, T. Ullrich, D.G. Underwood, I. Upsal, G. Van Buren, J. Vanek, A.N. Vasiliev, I. Vassiliev, V. Verkest, F. Videbæk, S. Vokal, S.A. Voloshin, F. Wang, G. Wang, J.S. Wang, P. Wang, X. Wang, Y. Wang, Y. Wang, Z. Wang, J.C. Webb, P.C. Weidenkaff, L. Wen, G.D. Westfall, H. Wieman, S.W. Wissink, R. Witt, J. Wu, J. Wu, Y. Wu, B. Xi, Z.G. Xiao, G. Xie, W. Xie, H. Xu, N. Xu, Q.H. Xu, Y. Xu, Z. Xu, Z. Xu, G. Yan, C. Yang, Q. Yang, S. Yang, Y. Yang, Z. Ye, Z. Ye, L. Yi, K. Yip, Y. Yu, H. Zbroszczyk, W. Zha, C. Zhang, D. Zhang, J. Zhang, S. Zhang, S. Zhang, X.P. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Z.J. Zhang, Z. Zhang, Z. Zhang, J. Zhao, C. Zhou, Y. Zhou, X. Zhu, M. Zurek, and M. Zyzak