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Muhammad Ibrahim Abdulhamid, Bassam Aboona, Jaroslav Adam, Leszek Adamczyk, Joseph R. Adams, Ishu Aggarwal, Madan Mohan Aggarwal, Zubayer Ahammed, Elke Caroline Aschenauer, Sameer Aslam, J. Atchison, Vipul Bairathi, Jonathan Gonzalo Ball Cap, Kenneth Barish, Rene Bellwied, Pratibha Bhagat, Anju Bhasin, Somadutta Bhatta, Sneha Bhosale, Jaroslav Bielčík, Jana Bielčíková, James D. Brandenburg, Caleb Broodo, Xiang-Zhou Cai, Helen Louise Caines, Manuel Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Daniel A. Cebra, Jakub Češka, Irakli Chakaberia, Petr Chaloupka, B. K. Chan, Z. Chang, A. Chatterjee, D. Chen, J. Chen, J. H. Chen, Z. Chen, J. Cheng, Y. Cheng, Subikash Choudhury, William Christie, X. Chu, Henry J. Crawford, Máté Csanád, G. Dale-Gau, A. Das, Ingo Martin Deppner, A. Dhamija, Prabhupada Dixit, X. Dong, James Lucus Drachenberg, Emilie Duckworth, James C. Dunlop, Jon M. Engelage, Geary Wareham Eppley, ShinIchi Esumi, Olga Y. Evdokimov, Kjeld Oleg Eyser, Renee H. Fatemi, Salvatore Fazio, C. J. 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Zhang, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Z. J. Zhang, Z. Zhang, Z. Zhang, F. Zhao, J. Zhao, M. Zhao, J. Zhou, S. Zhou, Y. Zhou, X. Zhu, Maria Katarzyna Żurek, Maksym Zyzak

• We report the first measurements of cumulants, up to 4th order, of deuteron number distributions and proton-deuteron correlations in Au+Au collisions recorded by the STAR experiment in phase-I of Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Deuteron cumulants, their ratios, and proton-deuteron mixed cumulants are presented for different collision centralities covering a range of center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair sNN−−−−√~=~7.7 to 200~GeV. It is found that the cumulant ratios at lower collision energies favor a canonical ensemble over a grand canonical ensemble in thermal models. An anti-correlation between proton and deuteron multiplicity is observed across all collision energies and centralities, consistent with the expectation from global baryon number conservation. The UrQMD model coupled with a phase-space coalescence mechanism qualitatively reproduces the collision-energy dependence of cumulant ratios and proton-deuteron correlations.