23–28 Jun 2014
Columbia University
US/Eastern timezone

Fluctuations of the electric charge in theory and experiment

23 Jun 2014, 16:30
20m
501 NWC

501 NWC

Talk Nonzero Temperature and Density Nonzero temperature and Density

Speaker

Dr Szabolcs Borsanyi (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

Description

We present the continuum extrapolated kurtosis, skewness and variance of the electric charge in a grand canonical ensemble with zero or small chemical potential. This observable his a particular relevance in Heavy Ion Physics since ratios of such fluctuations have been measured in experiment at the chemical freeze-out. We discuss how lattice results describe the STAR fluctuation data at RHIC and show a thermometer candidate for the LHC.

Primary author

Dr Szabolcs Borsanyi (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

Co-authors

Dr Claudia Ratti (University of Trento) Prof. Kálmán K Szabó (Forschungszentrum Jülich) Prof. Sandor D Katz (Eötvös University) Dr Stefan Krieg (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH/Wuppertal University) Prof. Zoltán Fodor (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

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