Speaker
Adam Bzdak
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Description
We discuss the effects of the global baryon and electric charge conservation on the cumulants of net baryon and net proton fluctuations [1], which are considered to be sensitive probes of the QCD critical point. We show that the cumulants are substantially suppressed if the conservation laws are taken into account. We propose a new observable that is not influenced by the global baryon conservation but is highly sensitive to the critical end point or the crossover.
[1] A. Bzdak, V. Koch, V. Skokov, arXiv:1203.4529 [hep-ph]
Primary authors
Adam Bzdak
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Vladimir Skokov
(Brookhaven national laboratory)
Volker Koch
(LBNL)
