First-principle quantitative description of fluctuation dynamics is essential for interpreting the upcoming results of the phase II of the Beam Energy Scan experiment aimed at discovering the QCD critical point. Such a formalism, based on relativistic hydrodynamics, has been developed for Gaussian fluctuations previously. Also, in our previous work, the evolution equations for non-Gaussian...
The quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram is not yet well explored. In particular, there is a significant, theoretical and experimental, effort to search for the predicted first-order phase transition and the corresponding critical endpoint between the hadronic matter and quark-gluon plasma. The fluctuations of, e.g., net-baryon number, electric charge, or strangeness are known to be...
A non-monotonic net-proton kurtosis as a function of the collision energy for very central collisions has been suggested and may be confirmed by recent BES-II program results advocating the existence of the QCD critical point. Fluctuations at the origin of this peculiar behavior are produced in the highly dynamic environment of ultra-relativistic collisions. Especially, the violent...