30 May 2016 to 4 June 2016
University of Wrocław
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Higher order moments of net-charge multiplicity distribution in p+p interactions at SPS energies from NA61/SHINE

3 Jun 2016, 14:00
30m
Oratorium Marianum (University of Wrocław)

Oratorium Marianum

University of Wrocław

Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

Speaker

Maja Katarzyna Maćkowiak-Pawłowska (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))

Description

NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS is a fixed-target experiment pursuing a rich physics program including measurements for heavy ion, neutrino and cosmic ray physics. The main goal of the ion program is to study the properties of the onset of deconfinement and to search for the signatures of the critical point. Specific property of the critical point – increase in the correlation length – makes fluctuations its basic signal. Recently, special interest is paid towards fluctuations of higher order moments as they are more sensitive to the correlation length than typically studied second order moments.

In this contribution preliminary results on higher order fluctuations of negatively charged hadrons and net-charge distribution in p+p interactions will be shown. The new data will be compared with model predictions.

Primary author

Maja Katarzyna Maćkowiak-Pawłowska (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))

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