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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| Dokumenttyp: | Article (Journal) |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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20 May 2022
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Physical review letters
Year: 2022, Jahrgang: 128, Heft: 20, Pages: 1-9 |
| ISSN: | 1079-7114 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.202303 |
| Online-Zugang: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.202303 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.202303 |
| Verfasserangaben: | 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 |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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%–5% collisions, a proton cumulant ratio is measured to be C4/C2=−0.85±0.09 (stat)±0.82 (syst), which is 2σ below the Poisson baseline with respect to both the statistical and systematic uncertainties. The hadronic transport UrQMD model reproduces our C4/C2 in the measured acceptance. Compared to higher energy results and the transport model calculations, the suppression in C4/C2 is consistent with fluctuations driven by baryon number conservation and indicates an energy regime dominated by hadronic interactions. These data imply that the QCD critical region, if created in heavy-ion collisions, could only exist at energies higher than 3 GeV. |
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| ISSN: | 1079-7114 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.202303 |