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Measurement of density correlations in pseudorapidity via charged particle multiplicity fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV

  • S. S. Adler
  • , S. Afanasiev
  • , C. Aidala
  • , N. N. Ajitanand
  • , Y. Akiba
  • , J. Alexander
  • , R. Amirikas
  • , L. Aphecetche
  • , S. H. Aronson
  • , R. Averbeck
  • , T. C. Awes
  • , R. Azmoun
  • , V. Babintsev
  • , A. Baldisseri
  • , K. N. Barish
  • , P. D. Barnes
  • , B. Bassalleck
  • , S. Bathe
  • , S. Batsouli
  • , V. Baublis
  • A. Bazilevsky, S. Belikov, Y. Berdnikov, S. Bhagavatula, J. G. Boissevain, H. Borel, S. Borenstein, M. L. Brooks, D. S. Brown, N. Bruner, D. Bucher, H. Buesching, V. Bumazhnov, G. Bunce, J. M. Burward-Hoy, S. Butsyk, X. Camard, J. S. Chai, P. Chand, W. C. Chang, S. Chernichenko, C. Y. Chi, J. Chiba, M. Chiu, I. J. Choi, J. Choi, R. K. Choudhury, T. Chujo, V. Cianciolo, Y. Cobigo, B. A. Cole, P. Constantin, D. D'Enterria, G. David, H. Delagrange, A. Denisov, A. Deshpande, E. J. Desmond, A. Devismes, O. Dietzsch, O. Drapier, A. Drees, K. A. Drees, A. Durum, D. Dutta, Y. V. Efremenko, K. El Chenawi, A. Enokizono, H. En'Yo, S. Esumi, L. Ewell, D. E. Fields, F. Fleuret, S. L. Fokin, B. D. Fox, Z. Fraenkel, J. E. Frantz, A. Franz, A. D. Frawley, S. Y. Fung, S. Garpman, T. K. Ghosh, A. Glenn, G. Gogiberidze, M. Gonin, J. Gosset, Y. Goto, R. Granier De Cassagnac, N. Grau, S. V. Greene, M. Grosse Perdekamp, W. Guryn, H. A. Gustafsson, T. Hachiya, J. S. Haggerty, H. Hamagaki, A. G. Hansen, E. P. Hartouni, M. Harvey, R. Hayano, N. Hayashi, X. He, H. W. Van Hecke, M. Heffner, T. K. Hemmick, J. M. Heuser, M. Hibino, J. C. Hill, W. Holzmann, K. Homma, B. Hong, A. Hoover, T. Ichihara, V. V. Ikonnikov, K. Imai, D. Isenhower, M. Ishihara, M. Issah, A. Isupov, B. V. Jacak, W. Y. Jang, Y. Jeong, J. Jia, O. Jinnouchi, B. M. Johnson, S. C. Johnson, K. S. Joo, D. Jouan, S. Kametani, N. Kamihara, J. H. Kang, S. S. Kapoor, K. Katou, S. Kelly, B. Khachaturov, A. Khanzadeev, J. Kikuchi, D. H. Kim, D. J. Kim, D. W. Kim, E. Kim, G. B. Kim, H. J. Kim, E. Kistenev, A. Kiyomichi, K. Kiyoyama, C. Klein-Boesing, H. Kobayashi, L. Kochenda, V. Kochetkov, D. Koehler, T. Kohama, M. Kopytine, D. Kotchetkov, A. Kozlov, P. J. Kroon, C. H. Kuberg, K. Kurita, Y. Kuroki, M. J. Kweon, Y. Kwon, G. S. Kyle, R. Lacey, V. Ladygin, J. G. Lajoie, A. Lebedev, S. Leckey, D. M. Lee, S. Lee, M. J. Leitch, X. H. Li, H. Lim, A. Litvinenko, M. X. Liu, Y. Liu, C. F. Maguire, Y. I. Makdisi, A. Malakhov, V. I. Manko, Y. Mao, G. Martinez, M. D. Marx, H. Masui, F. Matathias, T. Matsumoto, P. L. McGaughey, E. Melnikov, F. Messer, Y. Miake, J. Milan, T. E. Miller, A. Milov, S. Mioduszewski, R. E. Mischke, G. C. Mishra, J. T. Mitchell, A. K. Mohanty, D. P. Morrison, J. M. Moss, F. Mühlbacher, D. Mukhopadhyay, M. Muniruzzaman, J. Murata, S. Nagamiya, J. L. Nagle, T. Nakamura, B. K. Nandi, M. Nara, J. Newby, P. Nilsson, A. S. Nyanin, J. Nystrand, E. O'Brien, C. A. Ogilvie, H. Ohnishi, I. D. Ojha, K. Okada, M. Ono, V. Onuchin, A. Oskarsson, I. Otterlund, K. Oyama, K. Ozawa, D. Pal, A. P.T. Palounek, V. Pantuev, V. Papavassiliou, J. Park, A. Parmar, S. F. Pate, T. Peitzmann, J. C. Peng, V. Peresedov, C. Pinkenburg, R. P. Pisani, F. Plasil, M. L. Purschke, A. K. Purwar, J. Rak, I. Ravinovich, K. F. Read, M. Reuter, K. Reygers, V. Riabov, Y. Riabov, R. Du Rietz, G. Roche, A. Romana, M. Rosati, P. Rosnet, S. S. Ryu, M. E. Sadler, N. Saito, T. Sakaguchi, M. Sakai, S. Sakai, V. Samsonov, L. Sanfratello, R. Santo, H. D. Sato, S. Sato, S. Sawada, Y. Schutz, V. Semenov, R. Seto, M. R. Shaw, T. K. Shea, T. A. Shibata, K. Shigaki, T. Shiina, C. L. Silva, D. Silvermyr, K. S. Sim, C. P. Singh, V. Singh, M. Sivertz, A. Soldatov, R. A. Soltz, W. E. Sondheim, S. P. Sorensen, I. V. Sourikova, F. Staley, P. W. Stankus, E. Stenlund, M. Stepanov, A. Ster, S. P. Stoll, T. Sugitate, J. P. Sullivan, E. M. Takagui, A. Taketani, M. Tamai, K. H. Tanaka, Y. Tanaka, K. Tanida, M. J. Tannenbaum, P. Tarján, J. D. Tepe, T. L. Thomas, A. Toia, J. Tojo, H. Torii, R. S. Towell, I. Tserruya, H. Tsuruoka, S. K. Tuli, H. Tydesjö, N. Tyurin, J. Velkovska, M. Velkovsky, V. Veszprémi, L. Villatte, A. A. Vinogradov, M. A. Volkov, E. Vznuzdaev, X. R. Wang, Y. Watanabe, S. N. White, F. K. Wohn, C. L. Woody, W. Xie, Y. Yang, A. Yanovich, S. Yokkaichi, G. R. Young, I. E. Yushmanov, W. A. Zajc, C. Zhang, S. Zhou, S. J. Zhou, L. Zolin
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
  • Stony Brook University
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
  • RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research)
  • Florida State University
  • Université de Nantes
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Kurchatov Institute
  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS and CEA
  • University of California, Riverside
  • MST-8, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • University of New Mexico
  • University of Münster
  • Columbia University
  • Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI)
  • Riken BNL Research Center
  • Iowa State University
  • St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University
  • New Mexico State University
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Cyclotron Application Laboratory
  • Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
  • Academia Sinica, Institute Of Physics
  • Yonsei University
  • Kangwon National University
  • University of São Paulo
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Hiroshima University
  • University of Tsukuba
  • Kurchatov Institute
  • Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
  • Lund University
  • University of Tennessee
  • University of Tokyo
  • Georgia State University
  • Waseda University
  • Korea University
  • Kyoto University
  • Abilene Christian University
  • Myongji University
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Seoul National University
  • Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science
  • China Institute of Atomic Energy
  • Banaras Hindu University
  • Université Blaise Pascal
  • Wigner Research Centre for Physics
  • University of Debrecen

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Abstract

Longitudinal density correlations of produced matter in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV have been measured from the inclusive charged particle distributions as a function of pseudorapidity window sizes. The extracted αξ parameter, related to the susceptibility of the density fluctuations in the long-wavelength limit, exhibits a nonmonotonic behavior as a function of the number of participant nucleons, Npart. A local maximum is seen at Npart~90, with corresponding energy density based on the Bjorken picture of εBjτ~2.4 GeV/(fm2c) with a transverse area size of 60 fm2. This behavior may suggest a critical phase boundary based on the Ginzburg-Landau framework.

Original languageEnglish
Article number034903
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume76
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Sept 2007

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