1. Critical fluctuations of the proton density in A+A collisions at 158A GeV
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Anticic, T., Baatar, B., Barna, D., Bartke, J., Beck, J., Betev, L., Białkowska, H., Blume, C., Bogusz, M., Boimska, B., Book, J., Botje, M., Bunčić, P., Cetner, T., Christakoglou, P., Chung, P., Chvala, O., Cramer, J., Eckardt, V., Fodor, Z., Foka, P., Friese, V., Gaździcki, M., Grebieszkow, K., Höhne, C., Kadija, K., Karev, A., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kowalski, M., Kresan, D., Laszlo, A., Lacey, R., van Leeuwen, M., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Makariev, M., Malakhov, A. I., Mateev, M., Melkumov, G. L., Mitrovski, M., Mrówczyński, St., Pálla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Peryt, W., Pluta, J., Prindle, D., Pühlhofer, F., Renfordt, R., Roland, C., Roland, G., Rustamov, A., Rybczyński, M., Rybicki, A., Sandoval, A., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T., Seyboth, P., Siklér, F., Skrzypczak, E., Slodkowski, M., Stefanek, G., Stock, R., Ströbele, H., Susa, T., Szuba, M., Varga, D., Vassiliou, M., Veres, G. I., Vesztergombi, G., Vranić, D., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarć, A., Antoniou, N. G., Davis, N., Diakonos, F. K., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Roland, Christof E, and Roland, Gunther M
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Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Space (mathematics) ,01 natural sciences ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,law.invention ,Nuclear physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ,law ,Critical point (thermodynamics) ,Intermittency ,0103 physical sciences ,Nuclear Physics - Experiment ,ddc:530 ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,Quantum field theory ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Engineering (miscellaneous) ,Quantum chromodynamics ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,Phase space ,Exponent ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Factorial moment - Abstract
We look for fluctuations expected for the QCD critical point using an intermittency analysis in the transverse momentum phase space of protons produced around midrapidity in the 12.5 % most central C+C, Si+Si and Pb+Pb collisions at the maximum SPS energy of 158A GeV. We find evidence of power-law fluctuations for the Si+Si data. The fitted power-law exponent Φ[subscript 2] = 0.96[superscript +0.38][subscript -0.25] (stat.) ± 0.16 (syst.) is consistent with the value expected for critical fluctuations. Power-law fluctuations had previously also been observed in low-mass π[superscript +] π[superscript 1-] pairs in the same Si+Si collisions., United States. Department of Energy (Grant DE-FG03-97ER41020/A000)
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- 2015