2007/07/31 by Benjamin Lungwitz, B. Lungwitz, Marcus Bleicher · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.76.044904
published as Phys.Rev.C76:044904,2007 · 10 pages, 10 figures
arxiv created 2007/09/03 · openalex publication_date 2007/10/09 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present a comprehensive study of event-by-event multiplicity fluctuations in nucleon-nucleon and nucleus-nucleus interactions from the BNL Alternating Gradient Synchrotron/GSI Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research to BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider energies within the ultrarelativistic quantum molecular dynamics transport approach. The scaled variances of negative, positive, and all charged hadrons are analyzed. The scaled variance in central Pb+Pb collisions increases with energy and behaves similar to inelastic p+p interactions. We find a nontrivial dependence of multiplicity fluctuations on the rapidity and transverse-momentum interval used for the analysis and on the centrality selection procedure. Quantitative predictions for the NA49 experiment are given, taking into account the acceptance of the detector and the selection procedure of central events.