Search for the critical point of strongly-interacting matter in 40Ar + 45Sc collisions at 150A Ge V /c using scaled factorial moments of protons

Adhikary, H.; Adrich, P.; Allison, K.K.; Amin, N.; Andronov, E.V.; Antićić, T.; Arsene, I.-C.; Bajda, M.; Balkova, Y.; Baszczyk, M.; Battaglia, D.; Bazgir, A.; Bhosale, S.; Bielewicz, M.; Blondel, A.; Bogomilov, M.; Bondar, Y.; BOSTAN, NİLAY; Brandin, A.; Bryliński, W.; Brzychczyk, J.; Buryakov, M.; Camino, A.F.; Christakoglou, P.; Ćirković, M.; Csanád, M.; Cybowska, J.; Czopowicz, T.; Dalmazzone, C.; Davis, N.; Diakonos, F.; Dmitriev, A.; von Doetinchem, P.; Dominik, W.; Dorosz, P.; Dumarchez, J.; Engel, R.; Feofilov, G.A.; Fields, L.; Fodor, Z.; Friend, M.; Gaździcki, M.; Golosov, O.; Golovatyuk, V.; Golubeva, M.; Grebieszkow, K.; Guber, F.; Igolkin, S.N.; Ilieva, S.; Ivashkin, A.; Izvestnyy, A.; Kadija, K.; Kapoyannis, A.; Kargin, N.; Karpushkin, N.; Kashirin, E.; Kiełbowicz, M.; Kireyeu, V.A.; Kitagawa, H.; Kolesnikov, R.; Kolev, D.; Koshio, Y.; Kovalenko, V.N.; Kowalski, S.; Kozłowski, B.; Krasnoperov, A.; Kucewicz, W.; Kuchowicz, M.; Kuich, M.; Kurepin, A.; László, A.; Lewicki, M.; Lykasov, G.; Lyubushkin, V.V.; Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M.; Majka, Z.; Makhnev, A.; Maksiak, B.; Malakhov, A.I.; Marcinek, A.; Marino, A.D.; Mathes, H.-J.; Matulewicz, T.; Matveev, V.; Melkumov, G.L.; Merzlaya, A.; Mik, Ł.; Morawiec, A.; Morozov, S.; Nagai, Y.; Nakadaira, T.; Naskręt, M.; Nishimori, S.; Ozvenchuk, V.; Panagiotou, A.D.; Panova, O.; Paolone, V.; Petukhov, O.; Pidhurskyi, I.; Płaneta, R.; Podlaski, P.; Popov, B.A.; Pórfy, B.; Posiadała-Zezula, M.; Prokhorova, D.S.; Pszczel, D.; Puławski, S.; Puzović, J.; Renfordt, R.; Ren, L.; Reyna Ortiz, V.Z.; Röhrich, D.; Rondio, E.; Roth, M.; Rozpłochowski, Ł.; Rumberger, B.T.; Rumyantsev, M.; Rustamov, A.; Rybczynski, M.; Rybicki, A.; Sakashita, K.; Schmidt, K.; Seryakov, A.; Seyboth, P.; Shah, U.A.; Shiraishi, Y.; Shukla, A.; Słodkowski, M.; Staszel, P.; Stefanek, G.; Stepaniak, J.; Strikhanov, M.; Ströbele, H.; Šuša, T.; Swiderski, L.; Szewiński, J.; Szukiewicz, R.; Taranenko, A.; Tefelska, A.; Tefelski, D.; Tereshchenko, V.; Toia, A.; Tsenov, R.; Turko, L.; Tveter, T.S.; Unger, M.; Urbaniak, M.; Valiev, F.F.; Vassiliou, M.; Veberič, D.; Vechernin, V.V.; Volkov, V.; Wickremasinghe, A.; Wójcik, K.; Wyszyński, O.; Zaitsev, A.; Zimmerman, E.D.; Zviagina, A.; Zwaska, R.

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11942-9

Search for the critical point of strongly-interacting matter in 40Ar + 45Sc collisions at 150A Ge V /c using scaled factorial moments of protons

Adhikary H., Adrich P., Allison K., Amin N., Andronov E., Antićić T., ...More

European Physical Journal C, vol.83, no.9, 2023 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)

Publication Type: Article / Article
Volume: 83 Issue: 9
Publication Date: 2023
Doi Number: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11942-9
Journal Name: European Physical Journal C
Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Aerospace Database, Chemical Abstracts Core, Communication Abstracts, INSPEC, zbMATH, Directory of Open Access Journals, Nature Index
Marmara University Affiliated: No

Abstract

The critical point of dense, strongly interacting matter is searched for at the CERN SPS in 40Ar + 45Sc collisions at 150A Ge V /c. The dependence of second-order scaled factorial moments of proton multiplicity distribution on the number of subdivisions of transverse momentum space is measured. The intermittency analysis is performed using both transverse momentum and cumulative transverse momentum. For the first time, statistically independent data sets are used for each subdivision number. The obtained results do not indicate any statistically significant intermittency pattern. An upper limit on the fraction of correlated proton pairs and the power of the correlation function is obtained based on a comparison with the Power-law Model developed for this purpose.