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5 papers

nucl-th2026

To bin or not to bin: does binning in multiplicity reliably suppress unwanted volume fluctuations?

Bengt Friman, Volker Koch

In this study, we examine the effect of the so-called Centrality Bin Width Correction (CBWC) on the measurement of (net-)proton number cumulants in nucleus-nucleus collisions. We p…

hep-ph2025

Indications for freeze-out of charge fluctuations in the quark-gluon plasma at the LHC

Jonathan Parra, Roman Poberezhniuk, Volker Koch +2

The D-measure of net-charge fluctuations quantifies the variance of net charge in strongly interacting matter. It was introduced over 20 years ago as a potential signal of quark-gl…

nucl-th2025

First order transition region of an equation of state for QCD with a critical point

Jamie M. Karthein, Volker Koch, Claudia Ratti

In addition to signals for the critical point, evidence for a first order phase transition would indicate a nontrivial structure within the QCD phase diagram. Moreover, while not a…

nucl-th2025

Probing QGP using local charge fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions

Jonathan Parra, Roman Poberezhniuk, Volker Koch +2

We revisit the D-measure of event-by-event net-electric charge fluctuations, an idea first introduced over 20 years ago as a potential signature for the presence of quark-gluon pla…

hep-ph2025

Particle Correlations in Jets

Wenbin Zhao, Volker Koch, Feng Yuan

We study particle correlations in high energy jets by comparing the measured energy-energy correlator (EEC) with that constructed from two individual energy flows with respect to t…