Net charge fluctuations in Au+Au interactions root s(NN)=130 GeV

Summary, in English

Data from Au+ Au interactions at s(NN)=130 GeV, obtained with the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider, are used to investigate local net charge fluctuations among particles produced near midrapidity. According to recent suggestions, such fluctuations may carry information from the quark-gluon plasma. This analysis shows that the fluctuations are dominated by a stochastic distribution of particles, but are also sensitive to other effects, like global charge conservation and resonance decays.

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• Department/s: Particle and nuclear physics
• Publishing year: 2002
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: Physical Review Letters
• Volume: 89
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.082301
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1079-7114