Volume fluctuations and higher-order cumulants of the net baryon number
Abstract
We consider the effect of volume fluctuations on cumulants of the net baryon number. Based on a general formalism, we derive universal expressions for the net baryon number cumulants in the presence of volume fluctuations with an arbitrary probability distribution. The relevance of these fluctuations for the baryon-number cumulants and in particular for the ratios of cumulants is assessed in the Polyakov loop extended quark-meson model within the functional renormalization group. We show that the baryon number cumulants are generally enhanced by volume fluctuations and that the critical behavior of higher-order cumulants may be modified significantly.
- Publication:
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Physical Review C
- Pub Date:
- September 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevC.88.034911
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1205.4756
- Bibcode:
- 2013PhRvC..88c4911S
- Keywords:
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- 24.85.+p;
- 21.65.-f;
- 25.75.-q;
- 24.60.-k;
- Quarks gluons and QCD in nuclei and nuclear processes;
- Nuclear matter;
- Relativistic heavy-ion collisions;
- Statistical theory and fluctuations;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 3 figures