1. Collision energy dependence of moments of net-kaon multiplicity distributions at RHIC
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Adamczyk, L, Adams, JR, Adkins, JK, Agakishiev, G, Aggarwal, MM, Ahammed, Z, Ajitanand, NN, Alekseev, I, Anderson, DM, Aoyama, R, Aparin, A, Arkhipkin, D, Aschenauer, EC, Ashraf, MU, Attri, A, Averichev, GS, Bai, X, Bairathi, V, Barish, K, Behera, A, Bellwied, R, Bhasin, A, Bhati, AK, Bhattarai, P, Bielcik, J, Bielcikova, J, Bland, LC, Bordyuzhin, IG, Bouchet, J, Brandenburg, JD, Brandin, AV, Brown, D, Bunzarov, I, Butterworth, J, Caines, H, Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, M, Campbell, JM, Cebra, D, Chakaberia, I, Chaloupka, P, Chang, Z, Chankova-Bunzarova, N, Chatterjee, A, Chattopadhyay, S, Chen, JH, Chen, X, Cheng, J, Cherney, M, Christie, W, Contin, G, Crawford, HJ, Das, S, De Silva, LC, Debbe, RR, Dedovich, TG, Deng, J, Derevschikov, AA, Didenko, L, Dilks, C, Dong, X, Drachenberg, JL, Draper, JE, Dunkelberger, LE, Dunlop, JC, Efimov, LG, Elsey, N, Engelage, J, Eppley, G, Esha, R, Esumi, S, Evdokimov, O, Ewigleben, J, Eyser, O, Fatemi, R, Fazio, S, Federic, P, Federicova, P, Fedorisin, J, Feng, Z, Filip, P, Finch, E, Fisyak, Y, Flores, CE, Fujita, J, Fulek, L, Gagliardi, CA, Garand, D, Geurts, F, Gibson, A, Girard, M, Grosnick, D, Gunarathne, DS, Guo, Y, Gupta, S, Gupta, A, Guryn, W, Hamad, AI, Hamed, A, and Harlenderova, A
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nucl-ex ,hep-ex ,hep-ph ,nucl-th ,Nuclear & Particles Physics ,Mathematical Physics ,Astronomical and Space Sciences ,Atomic ,Molecular ,Nuclear ,Particle and Plasma Physics - Abstract
Fluctuations of conserved quantities such as baryon number, charge, and strangeness are sensitive to the correlation length of the hot and dense matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and can be used to search for the QCD critical point. We report the first measurements of the moments of net-kaon multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions at sNN=7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4, and 200 GeV. The collision centrality and energy dependence of the mean (M), variance (σ2), skewness (S), and kurtosis (κ) for net-kaon multiplicity distributions as well as the ratio σ2/M and the products Sσ and κσ2 are presented. Comparisons are made with Poisson and negative binomial baseline calculations as well as with UrQMD, a transport model (UrQMD) that does not include effects from the QCD critical point. Within current uncertainties, the net-kaon cumulant ratios appear to be monotonic as a function of collision energy.
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- 2018