Multiplicity and net-electric charge fluctuations in central Ar+Sc interactions at 13A, 19A, 30A, 40A, 75A, and 150A GeV/c beam momenta measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS
This paper presents results on multiplicity fluctuations of positively and negatively charged hadrons as well as net-electric charge fluctuations measured in central Ar+Sc interactions at beam momenta 13A, 19A, 30A, 40A, 75A, and 150A GeV/c. The fluctuation analysis is one of the tools to search for the predicted critical point of strongly interacting matter. Results are corrected for the experimental biases and quantified using cumulant ratios. In most instances, multiplicity and net-charge distributions appear narrower than the corresponding Poisson or Skellam distributions. Cumulant ratios are compared with the EPOS1.99 model predictions, which provide a qualitative description that aligns with observations for positively and negatively charged particles. The obtained results are also compared to earlier NA61/SHINE results from inelastic p+p interactions in the same analysis acceptance.
Authors
- V. Golovatyuk
- O. Wyszyński (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6652-0450)
- P. von Doetinchem (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7801-3376)
- R. Szukiewicz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1291-4040)
- G. I. Lykasov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1544-6959)
- M. Rumyantsev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8233-2030)
- H. Adhikary (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5746-1268)
- I. Pidhurskyi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9916-9436)
- P. Staszel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4002-1626)
- A. Ivashkin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4595-5866)
- M. Gaździcki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6114-8223)
- M. Buryakov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2394-4967)
- K. Schmidt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0903-5790)
- A. Shukla (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3839-7229)
- M. Roth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1281-4477)
- P. Podlaski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0232-9841)
- A. Zaitsev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4711-9925)
- F. Guber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8790-3218)
- E. Zherebtsova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1364-0969)
- M. M. Kielbowicz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4403-9201)
- A. Rustamov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8678-6400)
- J. Brzychczyk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5320-6748)
- M. Słodkowski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0463-2753)
- A. Olivier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4261-8303)
- Darko Veberič (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2683-1526)
- M. Urbaniak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9768-030X)
- Y. Balkova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6957-573X)
- Evgeny Andronov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-9292)
- L. Ren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1709-7673)
- M. P. Lewicki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8972-3066)
- V. Paolone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2162-0957)
- D. Pszczel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4697-6688)
- Y. Bondar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2773-9668)
- P. Seyboth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4821-6105)
- Y. Nagai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1792-5005)
- M. Rybczyński (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3638-3766)
- T. Matulewicz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2098-1216)
- M. Kuich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6507-8699)
- Д. С. Прохорова (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3726-9196)
- K. Gollwitzer
- Ł. Mik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2712-6861)
- O. Vitiuk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9744-3937)
- W. Kucewicz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2073-711X)
- K. Sakashita (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2602-7837)
- Y. Koshio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-8505)
- V. Ozvenchuk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7821-7109)
- D. A. Wickremasinghe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5325-0455)
- Ł. Świderski
- W. Bryliński (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3457-6601)
- D. Rybka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9924-6398)
- S. Kowalski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9888-4008)
- M. Friend (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4660-4670)
- O. Panova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5039-7788)
- D. Tefelski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0802-2290)
- T. S. Tveter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7140-8644)
- A. Zviagina (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5211-6493)
- B. Kozłowski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8442-2320)
- G. L. Melkumov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2074-6755)
- B. Pórfy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5724-9737)
- U. A. Shah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9315-1304)
- M. Ćirković (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4420-9688)
- Hermann-Josef Mathes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0680-040X)
- R. Tsenov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1330-8640)
- V. A. Kireyeu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5630-9264)
- L. Turko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-8650)
- J. Steṕaniak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2064-9870)
- N. Karpushkin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5513-9331)
- D. Röhrich
- V. Z. Reyna Ortiz
- B. Popov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5416-9301)
- K. K. Allison (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3494-9383)
- J. Cybowska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2568-3664)
- A. Taranenko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1737-4474)
- Jarosław Szewiński (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2981-9303)
- P. Adrich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7019-5451)
- A. Dmitriev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7853-0173)
- M. Bielewicz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8267-4874)
- M. Bajda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8859-1099)
- S. Puławski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1982-2787)
- S. Ilieva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9204-2563)
- A. Blondel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1597-8859)
- R. Płaneta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8007-8577)
- A. Malakhov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8569-8409)
- Г. Феофилов (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3700-8623)
- A. Bazgir (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0358-0576)
- M. Bogomilov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7738-2041)
- Yash Chandak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2080-566X)
- W. Dominik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7444-9239)
- K. Grebieszkow (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6754-9554)
- C. Dalmazzone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6945-5845)
- P. Hurh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9024-5399)
- M. Golubeva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4756-2449)
- M. Kuchowicz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3174-585X)
- M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3954-6329)
- Ł. Rozpłochowski
- A. F. Camino
- Y. Shiraishi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0132-3923)
- M. Unger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7651-0272)
- V. Matveev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2745-5908)
- J. Dumarchez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9243-4425)
- A. D. Marino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-538X)
- E. D. Zimmerman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6394-6659)
- N. Amin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7572-3817)
- G. Stefanek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6656-9177)
- L. Fields (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8281-3686)
- A. Marcinek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9922-743X)
- A. Tefelska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6069-4273)
- N. Davis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3047-6854)
- O. Golosov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6562-2925)
- A. Rybicki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3076-0505)
- Á. László
- I. C. Arsene (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2316-9565)
- V. Lyubushkin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0136-233X)
- R. Engel
- D. Kolev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9203-4739)
- T. Czopowicz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1908-2977)
- K. Witek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6699-1895)
- T. Nakadaira
- V. Tereshchenko
- Z. Fodor
- A. Krasnoperov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1425-2861)
- A. Merzlaya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6553-2783)
- M. Csanád (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3154-6925)
- J. Lyon
- B. Maksiak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7950-2307)
- S. Bhosale (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5709-4747)
- S. Nishimori (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1820-0938)
- D. Battaglia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5283-0992)
- Roman A. Kolesnikov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-4224-1058)
- K. Wójcik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8315-9281)
- S. Morozov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6748-7277)
Institutions
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)
- Eötvös Loránd University (HU)
- Warsaw University of Technology (PL)
- Jagiellonian University (PL)
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- University of Hawaii System (US)
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)
- Jan Kochanowski University (PL)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Cracow University of Technology (PL)
- University of Colorado System (US)
- Notre Dame of Dadiangas University (PH)
- Dubna State University (RU)
- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (FR)
- Unge aksjonærer (NO)
- HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU)
- National Nuclear Research Center (AZ)
- University of Bergen (NO)
- University of Warsaw (PL)
- AGH University of Krakow (PL)
- University of Silesia in Katowice (PL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ArXiv.org
- Published
- 2025-03-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2503.22484
- Primary Topic
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Type
- article
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- CERN
- Strong
- European Commission
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal
- Office of Science
- Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules
- Fermilab