Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-08-22
Phys.Rev.D82:074013,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
22 pages, 12 figures, version accepted by Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.074013
We study the fluctuations and correlations of conserved charges, i.e. the baryon number, electric charge and the strangeness at finite temperature and nonzero baryon chemical potential with an effective model. The fluctuations are calculated up to the fourth-order and the correlations to the third-order. We find that the second-order fluctuations and correlations have a peak or valley structure when the chiral phase transition takes place with the increase of the baryon chemical potential; the third-order fluctuations and correlations change their signs during the chiral phase transition and the fourth-order fluctuations have two maximum and one minimum. we also depict contour plots of various fluctuations and correlations of conserved charges in the plane of temperature and baryon chemical potential. We find that higher order fluctuations and correlations of conserved charges are superior to the second-order ones to be used to search for the critical point in heavy ion collision experiments.
Fu Wei-jie
Wu Yue-Liang
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