1. Search for the critical point by the NA61/SHINE experiment
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Andronov, E., Aduszkiewicz, A., Andronov, E. V., Anticic, T., Baatar, B., Baszczyk, M., Bhosale, S., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Brandin, A., Bravar, A., Brylinski, W., Brzychczyk, J., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Bzdak, A., Cherif, H., Cirkovic, M., Csanad, M., Czopowicz, T., Damyanova, A., Davis, N., Deveaux, M., Dominik, W., Dorosz, P., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Garibov, A., Gazdzicki, M., Golosov, O., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Johnson, S. R., Kadija, K., Kaptur, Emil, Kargin, N., Kashirin, E., Kielbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Klochkov, V., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Korzenev, A., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalik, K., Kowalski, Seweryn, Koziel, M., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., Laszlo, A., Lazareva, T. V., Lewicki, M., Lojek, K., Łysakowski, Bartosz, Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak-Pawlowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Manic, D., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Marton, K., Mathes, H.-J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A. O., Messerly, B., Mik, L., Morozov, S., Mrowczynski, S., Nagai, Y., Naskret, M., Ozvenchuk, V., Paolone, V., Pavin, M., Petukhov, O., Planeta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Porfy, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Prokhorova, D. S., Puławski, Szymon, Puzovic, J., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Richter-Was, E., Rohrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rumberger, B. T., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sadovsky, A., Schmidt, Katarzyna, Seryakov, A. Y., Seyboth, P., Slodkowski, M., Snoch, A., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Strobele, H., Susa, T., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Toia, A., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberic, D., Vechernin, V. V., Wickremasinghe, A., Wlodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wyszynski, O., Zambelli, L., Zimmerman, E. D., Zwaska, R., and Scomparin, Enrico
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Hadron ,Nuclear Theory ,FOS: Physical sciences ,SPS ,nucl-ex ,01 natural sciences ,Deconfinement ,law.invention ,law ,Critical point (thermodynamics) ,Intermittency ,0103 physical sciences ,CERN ,ddc:530 ,Nuclear Physics - Experiment ,Multiplicity (chemistry) ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,010306 general physics ,Nuclear Experiment ,Phase diagram ,Physics ,fluctuations ,Large Hadron Collider ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,critical point ,fluctuations ,Observable - Abstract
NA61/SHINE is a fixed target experiment operating at CERN SPS. Its main goals are to search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter and to study the onset of deconfinement. For these goals a scan of the two dimensional phase diagram ($T$-$\mu_{B}$) is being performed at the SPS by measurements of hadron production in proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus interactions as a function of collision energy. In this paper the status of the search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter by the NA61/SHINE Collaboration is presented including recent results on proton intermittency, strongly intensive fluctuation observables of multiplicity and transverse momentum fluctuations. These measurements are expected to be sensitive to the correlation length and, therefore, have the ability to reveal the existence of the critical point via possible non-monotonic behavior. The new NA61/SHINE results are compared to the model predictions., Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in a special issue of Nuclear Physics A dedicated to Quark Matter 2018
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- 2019