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Measurement of the Sixth-Order Cumulant of Net-Proton Multiplicity Distributions in Au+Au Collisions at s NN =27, 54.4, and 200 GeV at RHIC

  • M. S. Abdallah
  • , J. Adam
  • , L. Adamczyk
  • , J. R. Adams
  • , J. K. Adkins
  • , G. Agakishiev
  • , I. Aggarwal
  • , M. M. Aggarwal
  • , Z. Ahammed
  • , I. Alekseev
  • , D. M. Anderson
  • , A. Aparin
  • , E. C. Aschenauer
  • , M. U. Ashraf
  • , F. G. Atetalla
  • , A. Attri
  • , G. S. Averichev
  • , V. Bairathi
  • , W. Baker
  • , J. G. Ball Cap
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  • American University in Cairo
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • AGH University of Krakow
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  • University of Kentucky
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Panjab University
  • Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre India
  • Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute
  • Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
  • Texas A&M University
  • Central China Normal University
  • Kent State University
  • Universidad de Tarapacá
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  • CAS - Institute of Modern Physics
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  • Warsaw University of Technology
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • National Institute of Science Education and Research
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
  • Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Berhampur
  • Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
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Abstract

According to first-principle lattice QCD calculations, the transition from quark-gluon plasma to hadronic matter is a smooth crossover in the region μB≤Tc. In this range the ratio, C6/C2, of net-baryon distributions are predicted to be negative. In this Letter, we report the first measurement of the midrapidity net-proton C6/C2 from 27, 54.4, and 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The dependence on collision centrality and kinematic acceptance in (pT, y) are analyzed. While for 27 and 54.4 GeV collisions the C6/C2 values are close to zero within uncertainties, it is observed that for 200 GeV collisions, the C6/C2 ratio becomes progressively negative from peripheral to central collisions. Transport model calculations without critical dynamics predict mostly positive values except for the most central collisions within uncertainties. These observations seem to favor a smooth crossover in the high-energy nuclear collisions at top RHIC energy.

Original languageEnglish
Article number262301
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume127
Issue number26
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 24 2021

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