New results from fluctuation analysis in NA49 at the CERN SPS

Abstract

The exploration of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter, particularly the study of the phase transition from hadronic to partonic matter and the search for a hypothetical critical endpoint of the first order transition line, is one of the most challenging tasks in present heavy ion physics. In this talk new results on chemical (particle ratio), transverse momentum, multiplicity and azimuthal angle fluctuations will be presented. We also discuss their connection to the onset of deconfinement and to the critical endpoint.

The Proceedings of the International Conference "Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement - CPOD 2011", Wuhan, November 7-11, 2011

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• Eccentricity fluctuations and its possible effect on elliptic flow measurements
• Identity method to study chemical fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
• Search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter in NA49
• On the energy dependence of $K/\pi$ fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisions

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• Inflection point as a characteristic of the QCD critical point