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Title: Fluctuations of Strongly-interacting Matter in Thermal Models at Chemical Freeze-out
Fluctuations provide a powerful tool for elucidating the nature of strongly-interacting matter in the QCD phase diagram. In heavy-ion-collision systems, the net-particle number fluctuations are captured at the moment of chemical freeze-out. Studies of the chemical freeze-out via susceptibilities from lattice QCD and the Hadron Resonance Gas model contribute to the characterization of the transition region of the QCD phase diagram. This contribution to proceedings will show how susceptibilities can be used to study the interplay between different conserved charges via cross-correlators and to constrain interactions in the hadron gas phase.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2138063
PAR ID:
10560780
Author(s) / Creator(s):
Publisher / Repository:
IOP
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume:
2536
Issue:
1
ISSN:
1742-6588
Page Range / eLocation ID:
012010
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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