TY - INPR A1 - Gaździcki, Marek A1 - Gorenstein, Mark I. A1 - Mrowczynski, Stanislaw T1 - Fluctuations and deconfinement phase transition in nucleus-nucleus collisions N2 - We propose a method to experimentally study the equation of state of strongly interacting matter created at the early stage of nucleus--nucleus collisions. The method exploits the relation between relative entropy and energy fluctuations and equation of state. As a measurable quantity, the ratio of properly filtered multiplicity to energy fluctuations is proposed. Within a statistical approach to the early stage of nucleus-nucleus collisions, the fluctuation ratio manifests a non--monotonic collision energy dependence with a maximum in the domain where the onset of deconfinement occurs. Y1 - 2004 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3857 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-16431 UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0304052 ER -