TY - JOUR

T1 - Search for the critical point by the NA61/SHINE experiment

AU - NA61/SHINE Collaboration

AU - Andronov, Evgeny

PY - 2019/2/1

Y1 - 2019/2/1

N2 - 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−μB) 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.

AB - 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−μB) 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.

KW - CERN

KW - critical point

KW - fluctuations

KW - SPS

KW - DISTRIBUTIONS

KW - FLUCTUATIONS

KW - MODEL

KW - COLLISIONS

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85060099224&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.09.019

DO - 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.09.019

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85060099224

VL - 982

SP - 835

EP - 838

JO - Nuclear Physics A

JF - Nuclear Physics A

SN - 0375-9474

ER -