@article{f5ad56f0a0a2403da63cadd7ec09a486,
title = "Energy dependence of intermittency for charged hadrons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC",
abstract = "Density fluctuations near the QCD critical point can be probed via an intermittency analysis in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We report the first measurement of intermittency in Au+Au collisions at s NN = 7.7-200 GeV measured by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The scaled factorial moments of identified charged hadrons are analyzed at mid-rapidity and within the transverse momentum phase space. We observe a power-law behavior of scaled factorial moments in Au+Au collisions and a decrease in the extracted scaling exponent (ν) from peripheral to central collisions. The ν is consistent with a constant for different collisions energies in the mid-central (10-40%) collisions. Moreover, the ν in the 0-5% most central Au+Au collisions exhibits a non-monotonic energy dependence that reaches a minimum around s NN = 27 GeV. The physics implications on the QCD phase structure are discussed.",
author = "{The STAR Collaboration} and Abdulhamid, {M. I.} and Aboona, {B. E.} and J. Adam and L. Adamczyk and Adams, {J. R.} and I. Aggarwal and Aggarwal, {M. M.} and Z. Ahammed and Anderson, {D. M.} and Aschenauer, {E. C.} and S. Aslam and J. Atchison and V. Bairathi and W. Baker and {Ball Cap}, {J. G.} and K. Barish and R. Bellwied and P. Bhagat and A. Bhasin and S. Bhatta and J. Bielcik and J. Bielcikova and Brandenburg, {J. D.} and Cai, {X. Z.} and H. Caines and {Calder{\'o}n de la Barca S{\'a}nchez}, M. and D. Cebra and J. Ceska and I. Chakaberia and P. Chaloupka and Chan, {B. K.} and Z. Chang and A. Chatterjee and D. Chen and J. Chen and Chen, {J. H.} and Z. Chen and J. Cheng and Y. Cheng and S. Choudhury and W. Christie and X. Chu and Crawford, {H. J.} and M. Csan{\'a}d and G. Dale-Gau and A. Das and M. Daugherity and Deppner, {I. M.} and A. Dhamija and Y. Yang",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 The Author(s)",
year = "2023",
month = oct,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1016/j.physletb.2023.138165",
language = "English",
volume = "845",
journal = "Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics",
issn = "0370-2693",
publisher = "Elsevier",
}