PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 314 - The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2017) - Heavy Ion Physics (Parallel Session). Conveners: Ralf Averbeck; Raphael Granier de Cassagnac; Carlos Salgado. Scientific Secretary: Andrea Dainese.
New results on fluctuations and correlations from the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS
K. Grebieszkow*  on behalf of the NA61/SHINE Collaboration
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Pre-published on: October 19, 2017
Published on: March 20, 2018
Abstract
The exploration of the QCD phase diagram is the most important task of present heavy ion experiments. In particular, we want to study the phase transition from hadronic to partonic matter and look for the critical point (CP) of strongly interacting matter. Fluctuations and correlations in kinematic characteristics and particle yields may help to locate the CP (in analogy to enlarged fluctuations due to critical opalescence close to a CP in a liquid/gas transition). The strong interactions program of the NA61/SHINE experiment may allow to discover or rule out the existence of the CP in the Super Proton Synchrotron energy domain. For this purpose we perform a two-dimensional scan by varying the energy ($5.1 < \sqrt{s_{NN}} < 16.8/17.3$ GeV) and the system size (p+p, p+Pb, Be+Be, Ar+Sc, Xe+La, Pb+Pb) of the collisions.

In this report new NA61/SHINE results on fluctuations and correlations in p+p, Be+Be, and Ar+Sc collisions are presented. In particular, results on transverse momentum and multiplicity fluctuations, as well as higher order moments of net-charge fluctuations are discussed. The NA61/SHINE data are compared to predictions of string hadronic models and to NA49 results.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.314.0167
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