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Nonmonotonic Energy Dependence of Net-Proton Number Fluctuations
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article
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Adam, J; Adamczyk, L; Adams, JR; Adkins, JK; Agakishiev, G; Aggarwal, MM; Ahammed, Z; Alekseev, I; Anderson, DM; Aparin, A; Aschenauer, EC; Ashraf, MU; Atetalla, FG; Attri, A; Averichev, GS; Bairathi, V; Barish, K; Behera, A; Bellwied, R; Bhasin, A; Bielcik, J; Bielcikova, J; Bland, LC; Bordyuzhin, IG; Brandenburg, JD; Brandin, AV; Butterworth, J; Caines, H; de la Barca Sánchez, M Calderón; Cebra, D; Chakaberia, I; Chaloupka, P; Chan, BK; Chang, F-H; Chang, Z; Chankova-Bunzarova, N; Chatterjee, A; Chen, D; Chen, J; Chen, JH; Chen, X; Chen, Z; Cheng, J; Cherney, M; Chevalier, M; Choudhury, S; Christie, W; Chu, X; Crawford, HJ; Csanád, M; Daugherity, M; Dedovich, TG; Deppner, IM; Derevschikov, AA; Didenko, L; Dong, X; Drachenberg, JL; Dunlop, JC; Edmonds, T; Elsey, N; Engelage, J; Eppley, G; Esumi, S; Evdokimov, O; Ewigleben, A; Eyser, O; Fatemi, R; Fazio, S; Federic, P; Fedorisin, J; Feng, CJ; Feng, Y; Filip, P; Finch, E; Fisyak, Y; Francisco, A; Fulek, L; Gagliardi, CA; Galatyuk, T; Geurts, F; Gibson, A; Gopal, K; Gou, X; Grosnick, D; Guryn, W; Hamad, AI; Hamed, A; Harabasz, S; Harris, JW; He, S; He, W; He, XH; He, Y; Heppelmann, S; Herrmann, N; Hoffman, E; Holub, L; Hong, Y; Horvat, S
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Physical Review Letters. 126(9)
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Abstract
Nonmonotonic variation with collision energy (sqrt[s_{NN}]) of the moments of the net-baryon number distribution in heavy-ion collisions, related to the correlation length and the susceptibilities of the system, is suggested as a signature for the quantum chromodynamics critical point. We report the first evidence of a nonmonotonic variation in the kurtosis times variance of the net-proton number (proxy for net-baryon number) distribution as a function of sqrt[s_{NN}] with 3.1 σ significance for head-on (central) gold-on-gold (Au+Au) collisions measured solenoidal tracker at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Data in noncentral Au+Au collisions and models of heavy-ion collisions without a critical point show a monotonic variation as a function of sqrt[s_{NN}].