13–19 May 2018
Venice, Italy
Europe/Zurich timezone
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Search for the critical point by the NA61/SHINE experiment

16 May 2018, 10:00
20m
Sala Volpi, 1st Floor (Palazzo del Casinò)

Sala Volpi, 1st Floor

Palazzo del Casinò

Parallel Talk Phase diagram and search for the critical point Phase diagram and search for the critical point

Speaker

Evgeny Andronov (St Petersburg State University (RU))

Description

NA61/SHINE is a fixed target experiment operating at CERN SPS. Its main goals are to search for the critical point of the strongly interacting matter and to study the onset of deconfinement. For these goals a scan of the two dimensional phase diagram (T-$\mu_B$) is being performed at the SPS by measurements of hadron production in proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus interactions as a function of collision energy.

In this contribution the status of the search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter by the NA61/SHINE Collaboration will be presented including recent results on proton intermittency, strongly intensive fluctuation observables of multiplicity and transverse momentum and higher moments of net charge fluctuations. These measurements are expected to be sensitive to the correlation length and, therefore, have the ability to reveal the existence of the critical point via possible non-monotonic behavior. The new NA61/SHINE results are compared to the corresponding NA49 measurements and model predictions.

Content type Experiment
Collaboration NA61/SHINE
Centralised submission by Collaboration Presenter name already specified

Primary author

Evgeny Andronov (St Petersburg State University (RU))

Presentation materials