Baryon number fluctuation and the quark-gluon plasma

Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 419011-419014

  Lin, Zi Wei ^a   Ko, C M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039191323     PISSN: 05562813     EISSN: 1089490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.64.041901     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. For recent progress, refer to Quark Matter 2001 Conference at http://www.rhic.bnl.gov/qm2001/
2. J. Rafelski and B. Müller, Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 1066 (1982); 56, 2334(E) (1986).
3. J. Rafelski and B. Müller, Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 1066 (1982); 56, 2334(E) (1986).
4. T. Matsui and H. Satz, Phys. Lett. B 178, 416 (1986).
5. X.-N. Wang and M. Gyulassy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 1480 (1992).
6. M. Asakawa, C.M. Ko, and P. Lévai, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 398 (1993).
7. M. Asakawa and C.M. Ko, Phys. Lett. B 322, 33 (1994).
8. For recent reviews, see M. Stephanov, K. Rajagopal, and E. Shuryak, Phys. Rev. D 60, 114028 (1999); H. Heiselberg, nucl-th/0003046.
9. For recent reviews, see M. Stephanov, K. Rajagopal, and E. Shuryak, Phys. Rev. D 60, 114028 (1999); H. Heiselberg, nucl-th/0003046.
10. M. Asakawa, U. Heinz, and B. Müller, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2072 (2000).
11. S. Jeon and V. Koch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2076 (2000).
12. E.V. Shuryak and M.A. Stephanov, Phys. Rev. C 63, 064903 (2001).
13. j, and s is then the net quark number in the quark-gluon plasma.
14. C.M. Ko, V. Koch, Z.W. Lin, K. Redlich, M. Stephanov, and X.-N. Wang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5438 (2001).
15. The equilibrium solution given in Eq. (2) and its first and second moments can also be derived from relativistic statistical mechanics as shown in Ref. [16].
16. J. Harris, in Quark Matter 2001 conference, see [1].
17. Z.W. Lin, S. Pal, C.M. Ko, B.A. Li, and Phys. Rev. C 64, 011902(R) (2001).
18. J. Cleymans and P. Koch, Z. Phys. C 52, 137 (1991).
19. S. Gavin and C. Pruneau, nucl-th/9906060; nucl-th/9907040; Phys. Rev. C 61, 044901 (2000).
20. G.F. Bertsch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 2349 (1994).
21. The net charge and net baryon fluctuations can also be smaller than the values expected from a hadronic matter if the small initial fluctuations produced from primary collisions could survive due to rapid expansion. See M. Gaździcki and S. Mrówczyński, nucl-th/0012094.
22. B. Andersson, G. Gustafson, G. Ingelman, and T. Sjöstrand, Phys. Rep. 97, 31 (1983).
23. G. Baym and H. Heiselberg, Phys. Lett. B 469, 7 (1999).
24. H. Heiselberg and A.D. Jackson, Phys. Rev. C 63, 064904 (2001).
25. S. Gavin, nucl-th/9908070.
26. Effects of partonic and hadronic scattering on the baryon number fluctuation are being studied using transport models.
27. G.C. Rossi and G. Veneziano, Nucl. Phys. B123, 507 (1977); Phys. Rep. 63, 153 (1980).
28. G.C. Rossi and G. Veneziano, Nucl. Phys. B123, 507 (1977); Phys. Rep. 63, 153 (1980).
29. D. Kharzeev, Phys. Lett. B 378, 238 (1996).
30. S.E. Vance, M. Gyulassy, and X.-N. Wang, Phys. Lett. B 443, 45 (1998).