Fluctuation probes of quark deconfinement

A different type of fluctuations in the multiplicities and momentum distributions of particles emitted in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is considered. These fluctuations are sensitive to the microscopic structure of the dense matter. The fluctuations of locally observed quantities that show a distinctly different behavior in a hadron gas (HG) and a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) was considered since the expansion is too fast for local fluctuations to follow the mean thermodynamic evolution of the system.

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Author Berndt Mueller Physics