Factorial cumulants from global baryon number conservation

2020/06/04 by Michał Barej, Adam Bzdak
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Antiproton #Baryon #Baryon number #Cumulant #Factorial #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Proton #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Statistics #hep-ex #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.102.064908

published as Phys. Rev. C 102, 064908 (2020) · 15 pages, 3 figures

arxiv created 2020/06/04 · openalex publication_date 2020/12/15 · arxiv updated 2021/01/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

The proton, antiproton, and mixed proton-antiproton factorial cumulants originating from the global conservation of baryon number are calculated analytically up to the sixth order. Our results can be directly tested in experiments.

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