Collision energy dependence of moments of net-kaon multiplicity distributions at RHIC
2018
Abstract Fluctuations of
conserved quantitiessuch as
baryon number, charge, and strangeness are sensitive to the correlation length of the hot and dense matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and can be used to search for the QCD critical point. We report the first measurements of the moments of net-kaon multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions at s NN = 7.7 , 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4, and 200 GeV. The collision centrality and energy dependence of the mean ( M ), variance ( σ 2 ), skewness ( S ), and
kurtosis( κ ) for net-kaon multiplicity distributions as well as the ratio σ 2 / M and the products Sσ and κ σ 2 are presented. Comparisons are made with Poisson and negative binomial baseline calculations as well as with UrQMD, a transport model (UrQMD) that does not include effects from the QCD critical point. Within current uncertainties, the net-kaon cumulant ratios appear to be monotonic as a function of collision energy.
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