Type: Article
Publication Date: 2021-11-29
Citations: 58
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.104.094047
The authors study the fluctuations of baryon number at finite temperature and density near the QCD phase transition from quark-gluon plasma to hadronic matter. Performing the calculations up to tenth order, they find a non-monotonic dependence of baryon number fluctuations on collision energy, which can arise in the non-critical crossover region of the phase diagram. The results compare well with recent experimental measurements from the STAR collaboration.