Baryon number and electric charge fluctuations in Pb+Pb collisions at SPS energies

  • Event-by-event fluctuations of the net baryon number and electric charge in nucleus-nucleus collisions are studied in Pb+Pb at SPS energies within the HSD transport model. We reveal an important role of the fluctuations in the number of target nucleon participants. They strongly influence all measured fluctuations even in the samples of events with rather rigid centrality trigger. This fact can be used to check different scenarios of nucleus-nucleus collisions by measuring the multiplicity fluctuations as a function of collision centrality in fixed kinematical regions of the projectile and target hemispheres. The HSD results for the event-by-event fluctuations of electric charge in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20, 30, 40, 80 and 158 A GeV are in a good agreement with the NA49 experimental data and considerably larger than expected in a quark-gluon plasma. This demonstrate that the distortions of the initial fluctuations by the hadronization phase and, in particular, by the final resonance decays dominate the observable fluctuations.

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Author:Volodymyr P. Konchakovski, Mark I. GorensteinORCiDGND, Elena L. BratkovskayaORCiDGND, Horst StöckerORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-37218
URL:http://www.arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0606047
Document Type:Preprint
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2007/02/16
Year of first Publication:2006
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2007/02/16
Source:http://www.arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0606047 ; Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. C74 (2006) 064911
HeBIS-PPN:190706481
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS)
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht