Baryon number fluctuations in the QCD phase diagram from Dyson-Schwinger equations

Abstract

We present results for fluctuations of the baryon number for QCD at nonzero temperature and chemical potential. These are extracted from solutions to a coupled set of truncated Dyson-Schwinger equations for the quark and gluon propagators of Landau-gauge QCD with $N_f=2+1$ quark flavors, that has been studied previously. We discuss the changes of fluctuations and ratios thereof up to fourth order for several temperatures and baryon chemical potential up to and beyond the critical endpoint. In the context of preliminary STAR data for the skewness and kurtosis ratios, the results are compatible with the scenario of a critical endpoint at large chemical potential and slightly offset from the freeze-out line. We also discuss the caveats involved in this comparison.

12 pages, 8 figures; v3: typos in Eqs. (12) and (23) corrected, version otherwise identical with published one

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