# Quark Matter 2018

13-19 May 2018
Venice, Italy
Europe/Zurich timezone
The organisers warmly thank all participants for such a lively QM2018! See you in China in 2019!

## Exploring chiral symmetry restoration in heavy-ion collisions with fluctuation observables

14 May 2018, 16:30
20m
Sala Perla, 1st Floor (Palazzo del Casinò)

### Sala Perla, 1st Floor

#### Palazzo del Casinò

Parallel Talk Correlations and fluctuations

### Speaker

Krzysztof Redlich (University of Wroclaw)

### Description

We study the critical properties of net-baryon-number fluctuations at the chiral restoration transition in a medium at finite temperature and net baryon density. The chiral dynamics of QCD is modeled by the Polykov-loop-extended Quark-Meson Lagrangian with the coupling of quarks to vector mesons. The Functional Renormalization Group is employed to properly account for the scaling properties of chiral observables at the phase boundary.

We focus on the properties of the net-baryon-number cumulants, $\chi_B^n$ for $n=1$ up to $n=8$, at and near the chiral phase boundary. We assess the influence of the location of the critical endpoint on the cumulant ratios and discuss the possibility to test non-equilibrium dynamics by comparing certain combination of baryon number susceptibilities.

The results are presented in the context of the recent experimental data of STAR and ALICE collaborations on fluctuation observables in heavy-ion collisions.

Content type Theory Presenter name already specified

### Primary authors

Gabor Almasi (Wigner Research Center) Bengt Friman (GSI) Krzysztof Redlich (University of Wroclaw)