Recent developments in particle yield fluctuation measurements

Abstract

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, properties of the initial state and effects arising during evolution of the medium, such as a transition between the hadronic and partonic phases, should reflect themselves in event-by-event fluctuations of the number of produced particles. In this paper, recent measurements of several event-by-event observables, namely, dynamical fluctuations of relative particle yields and forward-backward correlations of different types, are discussed. Also, new observables for forward-backward correlation studies are proposed: correlations between ratios of identified particle yields in two separated acceptance intervals and the correlation between the ratio in one interval and average transverse momentum in another.

Proceedings of XXIV Baldin ISHEPP (Dubna, Russia, 2018)

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