Net-charge fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV

Abelev, B. and Adam, J. and Adamová, D. and Adare, A. M. and Aggarwal, M. M. and Aglieri, Rinella G. and Agócs, András and Agostinelli, A. and Aguilar, Salazar S. and Ahammed, Z. and Ahmad, Masoodi A. and Ahmad, N. and Ahn, S. A. and Ahn, S. U. and Akindinov, A. and Aleksandrov, D. and Alessandro, B. and Alfaro, Molina R. and Alici, A. and Alkin, A. and Almaráz, Aviña E. and Alme, J. and Alt, T. and Altini, V. and Altinpinar, S. and Altsybeev, I. and Andrei, C. and Andronic, A. and Anguelov, V. and Anielski, J. and Barnaföldi, Gergely Gábor and Bencédi, Gyula and Berényi, Dániel and Boldizsár, László and Dénes, Ervin and Hamar, Gergő and Lévai, Péter and Molnár, Levente and Pochybova, Sona (2013) Net-charge fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 110 (15). ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract

We report the first measurement of the net–charge fluctuations in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV, measured with the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The dynamical fluctuations per unit entropy are observed to decrease when going from peripheral to central collisions. An additional reduction in the amount of fluctuations is seen in comparison to the results from lower energies. We examine the dependence of fluctuations on the pseudo–rapidity interval, which may account for the dilution of fluctuations during the evolution of the system. We find that the fluctuations at LHC are smaller compared to the measurements at the Relativistic heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), and as such, closer to what has been theoretically predicted for the formation of the Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP).

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