Search for the critical point by the NA61/SHINE experiment

Andronov, Evgeny; Aduszkiewicz, A.; Andronov, E., V; Anticic, T.; Baatar, B.; Baszczyk, M.; Bhosale, S.; Blondel, A.; Bogomilov, M.; Brandin, A.; Bravar, A.; Brylinski, W.; Brzychczyk, J.; Bunyatov, S. A.; Busygina, O.; Bzdak, A.; Cherif, H.; Cirkovic, M.; Csanad, M.; Czopowicz, T.; Damyanova, A.; Davis, N.; Deveaux, M.; Dominik, W.; Dorosz, P.; Dumarchez, J.; Engel, R.; Feofilov, G. A.; Fields, L.; Fodor, Z.; Garibov, A.; Gazdzicki, M.; Golosov, O.; Golubeva, M.; Grebieszkow, K.; Guber, F.; Haesler, A.; Igolkin, S. N.; Ilieva, S.; Ivashkin, A.; Johnson, S. R.; Kadija, K.; Kaptur, E.; Kargin, N.; Kashirin, E.; Kielbowicz, M.; Kireyeu, V. A.; Klochkov, V; Kolesnikov, V., I; Kolev, D.; Korzenev, A.; Kovalenko, V. N.; Kowalik, K.; Kowalski, S.; Koziel, M.; Krasnoperov, A.; Kucewicz, W.; Kuich, M.; Kurepin, A.; Larsen, D.; Laszlo, A.; Lazareva, T., V; Lewicki, M.; Lojek, K.; Lysakowski, B.; Lyubushkin, V. V.; Mackowiak-Pawlowska, M.; Majka, Z.; Maksiak, B.; Malakhov, A., I; Manic, D.; Marchionni, A.; Marcinek, A.; Marino, A. D.; Marton, K.; Mathes, H-J; Matulewicz, T.; Matveev, V; Melkumov, G. L.; Merzlaya, A. O.; Messerly, B.; Mik, L.; Morozov, S.; Mrowczynski, S.; Nagai, Y.; Naskret, M.; Ozvenchuk, V; Paolone, V; Pavin, M.; Petukhov, O.; Planeta, R.; Podlaski, P.; Popov, B. A.; Porfy, B.; Posiadala-Zezula, M.; Prokhorova, D. S.; Pulawski, S.; Puzovic, J.; Rauch, W.; Ravonel, M.; Renfordt, R.; Richter-Was, E.; Rohrich, D.; Rondio, E.; Roth, M.; Rumberger, B. T.; Rustamov, A.; Rybczynski, M.; Rybicki, A.; Sadovsky, A.; Schmidt, K.; Seryakov, A. Yu; Seyboth, P.; Slodkowski, M.; Snoch, A.; Staszel, P.; Stefanek, G.; Stepaniak, J.; Strikhanov, M.; Stroebele, H.; Susa, T.; Taranenko, A.; Tefelska, A.; Tefelski, D.; Tereshchenko, V; Toia, A.; Tsenov, R.; Turko, L.; Ulrich, R.; Unger, M.; Valiev, F. F.; Veberic, D.; Vechernin, V. V.; Wickremasinghe, A.; Wlodarczyk, Z.; Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A.; Wyszynski, O.; Zambelli, L.; Zimmerman, E. D.; Zwaska, R. (2019) Search for the critical point by the NA61/SHINE experiment. In: Scomparin, Enrico, (ed.) The 27th International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions: Quark Matter 2018. pp. 835-838 .

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Abstract

NA61/SHINE is a fixed target experiment operating at CERN SPS. Its main goals are to search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter and to study the onset of deconfinement. For these goals a scan of the two dimensional phase diagram (T-mu(B)) is being performed at the SPS by measurements of hadron production in proton- proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus interactions as a function of collision energy. In this paper the status of the search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter by the NA61/SHINE Collaboration is presented including recent results on proton intermittency, strongly intensive fluctuation observables of multiplicity and transverse momentum fluctuations. These measurements are expected to be sensitive to the correlation length and, therefore, have the ability to reveal the existence of the critical point via possible non-monotonic behavior. The new NA61/SHINE results are compared to the model predictions.

Item Type:	Conference or workshop item published in conference proceedings (UNSPECIFIED)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	critical point ; fluctuations ; CERN ; SPS
Subjects:	NATURAL SCIENCES > Physics
Divisions:	Division of Experimental Physics
Depositing User:	Tome Antičić
Date Deposited:	25 Apr 2022 13:56
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/7319
DOI:	10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.09.019

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