Phase Transition Signature Results from PHENIX

Abstract

The PHENIX experiment has conducted searches for the QCD critical point with measurements of multiplicity fluctuations, transverse momentum fluctuations, event-by-event kaon-to-pion ratios, elliptic flow, and correlations. Measurements have been made in several collision systems as a function of centrality and transverse momentum. The results do not show significant evidence of critical behavior in the collision systems and energies studied, although several interesting features are discussed.

Proceedings for the 5th International Workshop on the Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement (CPOD 2009), Brookhaven National Laboratory, June 8-12, 2009. 9 pages, 9 figures