Event-by-Event fluctuations in Heavy-ion collisions

by V. Koch (LBL/GSI)

Tuesday 11 Sept 2001, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

40-SS-B01 (CERN)

I will discuss the physics of event-by-event fluctuations of observables in heavy ion collisions. I will argue that e-by-e fluctuations measure the susceptibility of the system generated in these collisions and therefore provide important information on the properties of the system under consideration. In particular I will show that fluctuations of conserved quatities, especially the electic charge, may serve as a unique signature for the existence of matter with fractional charge carriers, such as the quark gluon plasma.

Organiser(s): Yiota Foka, Guy Paic and Urs Wiedemann

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