TY - JOUR A1 - Steinheimer, Jan A1 - Wang, Yongjia A1 - Mukherjee, Ayon A1 - Ye, Yunxiao A1 - Guo, Chenchen A1 - Li, Qingfeng A1 - Stöcker, Horst T1 - Nuclear interactions and net-proton number fluctuations in heavy ion collisions at the SIS18 accelerator T2 - Physics Letters B N2 - The effect of nuclear interactions on measurable net-proton number fluctuations in heavy ion collisions at the SIS18/GSI accelerator is investigated. The state of the art UrQMD model including interaction potentials is employed. It is found that the nuclear forces enhance the baryon number cumulants, as predicted from grand canonical thermodynamical models. The effect however is smeared out for proton number fluctuations due to iso-spin randomization and global baryon number conservation, which decreases the cumulant ratios. For a rapidity acceptance window larger than Δy > 0.4 the effects of global baryon number conservation dominate and all cumulant ratios are significantly smaller than 1. KW - Proton number fluctuations KW - Nuclear interactions Y1 - 2018 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/54782 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-547823 SN - 1873-2445 SN - 0370-2693 VL - 785.2018 SP - 40 EP - 45 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam [u.a.] ER -