201. Beam energy dependence of net- Λ fluctuations measured by the STAR experiment at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
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A. Gibson, D. Kalinkin, S. Heppelmann, N. Kulathunga Mudiyanselage, B. J. Summa, Olga Evdokimov, S. Ramachandran, O. Eyser, Y. Yang, Nilay Shah, W. J. Llope, L. V. Nogach, Jay Roberts, J. Engelage, G. Nigmatkulov, Maria Zurek, J. M. Landgraf, M. Sergeeva, Jongmin Lee, C. Zhou, R. Ma, M. Strikhanov, K. Krueger, Yicheng Feng, H. Z. Huang, S. Vokal, G. Odyniec, J. Sandweiss, Mate Csanad, Joel Anthony Mazer, Z. Yang, Alexander Jentsch, J. Bryslawskyj, Lei Zhang, D. Tlusty, Shangfeng Yang, J. H. Chen, Rajarshi Ray, Niladribihari Sahoo, Tong Liu, B. S. Page, Avishek Chatterjee, Y. Hong, C. Yang, T. Ljubicic, D. P. Kikola, R. Witt, D. A. Morozov, T. Edmonds, Wei Xie, A. Attri, Y. Li, S. Mioduszewski, B. Stringfellow, A. Aparin, H. Caines, P. Federic, Prithwish Tribedy, B. K. Srivastava, Tetsuro Sugiura, Y. J. Sun, Shengli Huang, C. Dilks, Guannan Xie, A. Quintero, Xuan Zhang, S. Kabana, A. Ewigleben, K. Yip, C. Zhong, J. C. Dunlop, L. Wen, N. Schmitz, E. Shahaliev, Vitaly Okorokov, Bernd Surrow, J. M. Butterworth, N. Elsey, J. C. Webb, W. B. Schmidke, A. V. Brandin, Zebo Tang, I. Vassiliev, Zubayer Ahammed, C. A. Gagliardi, W. Solyst, J. Rusnak, Jiangyong Jia, E. P. Sichtermann, M. Kocan, Hanna Paulina Zbroszczyk, J. B. Singh, Q. Y. Shou, Madan M. Aggarwal, Fuqiang Wang, L. Ruan, J. H. Thomas, D. K. Mishra, R. Pak, Vipul Bairathi, Irakli Chakaberia, Jana Bielcikova, X. C. Chen, I. G. Alekseev, M. A. Lisa, J. C. Mei, D. Zhang, Robert Licenik, Isaac Mooney, F-H. Chang, S. Esumi, Anthony Robert Timmins, Adam Ryszard Kisiel, J. L. Romero, J. D. Brandenburg, Roland Laszlo Pinter, H. J. Crawford, J. K. Adkins, G. S. Averichev, C. Perkins, Jaroslav Bielcik, J. Porter, R. Fatemi, L. He, T. Ullrich, Lukas Kramarik, Sooraj Krishnan Radhakrishnan, G. Agakishiev, Roli Esha, Todd Kinghorn, Ivan Kisel, D. Cebra, T. G. Dedovich, I. Upsal, Zhanwen Zhu, O. V. Rogachevskiy, L. Didenko, Maria Stefaniak, E. Finch, Daniel Nemes, S. Horvat, M. Cherney, Z. Ye, H. S. Xu, Zhigang Xiao, T. Huang, Muhammad Usman Ashraf, Hua Pei, Z. Chang, S. K. Tripathy, R. Reed, K. N. Barish, Maowu Nie, F. Seck, Yunpeng Liu, M. Posik, X. Huang, A. Kechechyan, Arabinda Behera, Sergey Voloshin, H. M. Spinka, P. V. Shanmuganathan, Pradip Kumar Sahu, T. Nonaka, N. G. Minaev, Xinyue Ju, E. C. Aschenauer, J. W. Harris, T. Tarnowsky, X. M. Sun, X. G. Luo, P. Sorensen, Joseph Kwasizur, A. H. Tang, S. Margetis, K. Jiang, Pengdong Wang, M. Tokarev, Y. Wang, Y. F. Wu, N. Xu, P. Filip, M. Shao, G. Van Buren, I. Bunzarov, A. A. Derevschikov, O. Matonoha, P. Szymanski, X. Dong, T. D. S. Stanislaus, H. H. Wieman, S. S. Shi, R. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, G. D. Westfall, S. Das, A. Gupta, Frank Jm Geurts, T. Galatyuk, D. Kapukchyan, J. M. Nelson, R. Seto, A. Lipiec, K. Meehan, Y. G. Ma, W. Zha, Lokesh Kumar, Jaroslav Adam, Peng Huo, L. C. Bland, W. Guryn, R. Lacey, M. Calderon De La Barca Sanchez, A. I. Hamad, Sedigheh Jowzaee, B. K. Chan, Michal Sumbera, J. Fedorisin, A. A. P. Suaide, D. G. Underwood, Catherine Tomkiel, J. Cheng, S. W. Wissink, Y. Zhang, Dukhishyam Mallick, Xiaoyu Liu, M. M. Mondal, E. G. Judd, N. Magdy, Lukas Holub, Bedangadas Mohanty, Z. Liu, F. Videbæk, Sukalyan Chattopadhyay, Chitrasen Jena, M. Lomnitz, Diana Pawlowska, Yunlan Ji, Anju Bhasin, A. J. Bassill, K. Kang, B. Huang, T. Niida, A. Lebedev, L. Adamczyk, Guo-Liang Ma, Li Yi, R. S. Longacre, Z. Moravcova, P. Kravtsov, Fuwang Shen, Dmitry Smirnov, N. K. Pruthi, G. Igo, K. Kauder, A. Taranenko, Chong Kim, G. Eppley, Qi Yang, Donald M. Anderson, H. G. Ritter, W. Christie, Q. H. Xu, P. Chaloupka, Ting Lin, J. Pluta, M. Zyzak, Rafal Sikora, Subhash Singha, Andrey Vasiliev, J. R. Adams, S. Trentalange, P. Seyboth, N. Chankova-Bunzarova, W. Li, X.G. Li, Skipper Kagamaster, Janet Elizabeth Seger, Y. F. Xu, B. Pawlik, I. M. Deppner, J. Putschke, Jan Vanek, Rene Bellwied, Xiaofeng Zhu, Ying Liang, F. Liu, Miroslav Simko, S. Zhang, Mariusz Przybycien, R. E. Tribble, Jize Zhao, A. Ogawa, D. N. Svirida, H. Liu, Md. Nasim, R. D. Majka, J. L. Drachenberg, J. Schambach, Benjamin Schweid, T. J. Humanic, A. Hamed, H. W. Ke, L. Fulek, S. Fazio, Zongye Zhang, I. G. Bordyuzhin, M. H. Kelsey, G. Wang, C-Q. Li, Christina Markert, O. Rusnakova, H. S. Matis, L. K. Kosarzewski, N. Herrmann, W. W. Jacobs, J. Lauret, Yevheniia Khyzhniak, R. Lednicky, L. Kochenda, Z. Tu, S. Siejka, Y. Fisyak, Lin Ma, F. G. Atetalla, O. D. Tsai, W. Q. Shen, K. Gopal, David Stewart, Sevil Salur, Peng Liu, Y. Panebratsev, Saehanseul Oh, D. Grosnick, R. Aoyama, Z. Z. Xu, B. Tu, Nikita Smirnov, K. Nayak, D. Keane, and Siwei Luo
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Physics ,Quantum chromodynamics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Nuclear Theory ,Hadron ,Strangeness ,Quantum number ,01 natural sciences ,Hadronization ,Nuclear physics ,0103 physical sciences ,Rapidity ,Baryon number ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider - Abstract
The measurements of particle multiplicity distributions have generated considerable interest in understanding the fluctuations of conserved quantum numbers in the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) hadronization regime, in particular near a possible critical point and near the chemical freeze-out. Net-protons and net-kaons have been used as proxies for the net-baryon number and net-strangeness, respectively. We report the measurement of efficiency- and centrality-bin width-corrected cumulant ratios (C2/C1, C3/C2) of net-Λ distributions, in the context of both strangeness and baryon number conservation, as a function of collision energy, centrality, and rapidity. The results are for Au+Au collisions at five beam energies (sNN=19.6, 27, 39, 62.4, and 200 GeV) recorded with the Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR). We compare our results to the Poisson and negative binomial (NBD) expectations, as well as to ultrarelativistic quantum molecular dynamics (UrQMD) and hadron resonance gas (HRG) model predictions. Both NBD and Poisson baselines agree with data within the statistical and systematic uncertainties. UrQMD describes the measured net-ΛC1 and C3 at 200 GeV reasonably well but deviates from C2, and the deviation increases as a function of collision energy. The ratios of the measured cumulants show no features of critical fluctuations. The chemical freeze-out temperatures extracted from a recent HRG calculation, which was successfully used to describe the net-proton, net-kaon, and net-charge data, indicate Λ freeze-out conditions similar to those of kaons. However, large deviations are found when comparing with temperatures obtained from net-proton fluctuations. The net-Λ cumulants show a weak but finite dependence on the rapidity coverage in the acceptance of the detector, which can be attributed to quantum number conservation.
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- 2020
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