Probing QCD critical fluctuations from intermittency analysis in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

It is shown that intermittency, a self-similar correlation with respect to the size of the phase space volume, is sensitive to critical density fluctuations of baryon numbers in a system belonging to the three-dimensional (3D) Ising universality class. The relation between intermittency index and re...

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Main Authors: Jin Wu, Yufu Lin, Yuanfang Wu, Zhiming Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-02-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319309086