Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2009-10-19
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
5 pages, 7 figures. To be published in the proceedings of DPF-2009, Detroit, MI, July 2009, eConf C090726
Scientific paper
The measurement of particle correlations and fluctuations has been suggested as a method to search for the existence of a phase transition in relativistic heavy ion collisions. If quark-gluon matter is formed in the collision of relativistic heavy ions, measuring these correlations could lead to a determination of the presence of partonic degrees of freedom within the collision. Additionally, non-statistical fluctuations in global quantities such as baryon number, strangeness, or charge may be observed near a QCD critical point. Results for short and long-range multiplicity correlations (forward-backward) are presented for several systems (Au+Au and Cu+Cu) and energies (e.g. $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200, 62.4, and 22.4 GeV). For the highest energy central A+A collisions, the correlation strength maintains a constant value across the measurement region. In peripheral collisions, at lower energies, and in pp data, the maximum appears at midrapidity. Comparison to models with short-range (HIJING) and both short and long-range interactions (Parton String Model) do not fully reproduce central Au+Au data. Preliminary results for K/$\pi$ fluctuations are also shown as a function of centrality in Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 22.4 GeV.
for the STAR Collaboration
Tarnowsky Terence J.
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