Fluctuation Probes of Quark Deconfinement
Masayuki AsakawaDepartment of Physic, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, JapanUlrich HeinzTheoretical Physics Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, SwitzerlandBerndt MüllerDepartment of Physic, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0305
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Abstract
The size of the average fluctuations of net baryon number and electric charge in a finite volume of hadronic matter differs widely between the confined and deconfined phases. These differences may be exploited as indicators of the formation of a quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, because fluctuations created in the initial state survive until freeze-out due to the rapid expansion of the hot fireball.
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