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Phys Rev Lett. 2013 Apr 12;110(15):152301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.152301. Epub 2013 Apr 10.

Net-charge fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[sNN]=2.76  TeV.

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Affiliations

  1. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA.
  2. Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
  3. Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, ?ež u Prahy, Czech Republic.
  4. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
  5. Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
  6. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
  7. KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
  8. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy.
  9. Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
  10. Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India.
  11. Department of Physics Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
  12. Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, South Korea.
  13. Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France and Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea.
  14. Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia.
  15. Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia.
  16. Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy.
  17. Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy and Centro Fermi-Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi," Rome, Italy.
  18. Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine.
  19. Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway.
  20. Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
  21. Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy.
  22. Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
  23. V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  24. National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania.
  25. Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany.
  26. Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
  27. Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany.
  28. Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
  29. Rudjer Boškovi? Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.
  30. Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy.
  31. Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy.
  32. SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France.
  33. Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
  34. Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France.
  35. Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
  36. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
  37. Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
  38. Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy.
  39. Centro Fermi-Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi," Rome, Italy.
  40. Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France.
  41. Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
  42. Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia.
  43. Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India.
  44. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy.
  45. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
  46. The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland.
  47. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia.
  48. Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  49. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India.
  50. Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France.
  51. University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.
  52. Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy.
  53. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia.
  54. Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India.
  55. University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
  56. Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy.
  57. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy.
  58. Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark and Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  59. Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
  60. Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain.
  61. Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
  62. Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia.
  63. Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia.
  64. Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia.
  65. Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
  66. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India.
  67. Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  68. Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France.
  69. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.
  70. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
  71. Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
  72. Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy and Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy.
  73. Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia.
  74. Physics Department, University of Cape Town, iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africa.
  75. Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China.
  76. Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru.
  77. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy.
  78. Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico and Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
  79. Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil.
  80. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy.
  81. Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba.
  82. Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland and Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
  83. Physics Department, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
  84. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France.
  85. Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France.
  86. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil.
  87. Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
  88. Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.
  89. Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea.
  90. Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy.
  91. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy and Centro Fermi-Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi," Rome, Italy.
  92. Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico.
  93. Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Alessandria, Italy.
  94. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
  95. Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
  96. Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy.
  97. Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania.
  98. Centro Fermi-Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi," Rome, Italy and Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy.
  99. Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy.
  100. Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy.
  101. Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland.
  102. Sezione INFN, Rome, Italy.
  103. Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA and Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.
  104. Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
  105. Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
  106. Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy.
  107. Chicago State University, Chicago, USA.
  108. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania.
  109. Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.
  110. Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico.
  111. Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India.
  112. Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia.
  113. Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia.
  114. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
  115. Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea.
  116. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia.
  117. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
  118. Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea.
  119. Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.
  120. Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
  121. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
  122. Zentrum für Technologietransfer und Telekommunikation (ZTT), Fachhochschule Worms, Worms, Germany.
  123. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.
  124. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
  125. The University of Texas at Austin, Physics Department, Austin, Texas, USA.
  126. Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany and Fachhochschule Köln, Köln, Germany.
  127. Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
  128. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany.
  129. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.
  130. Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France and Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy.
  131. Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
  132. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy.
  133. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
  134. SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France and Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France.
  135. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy.
  136. SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France and The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland.
  137. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università "La Sapienza" and Sezione INFN, Rome, Italy.
  138. Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden and Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
  139. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
  140. Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia.
  141. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy.
  142. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy.
  143. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA and Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
  144. Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland and Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland.
  145. Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, INFN, Legnaro, Italy.
  146. Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy.
  147. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy.
  148. Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT), Indore, India.
  149. Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
  150. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Centro Fermi-Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi," Rome, Italy and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy.
  151. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France.
  152. Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany and Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
  153. Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France and Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Alessandria, Italy.
  154. Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico and Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain.
  155. Rudjer Boškovi? Institute, Zagreb, Croatia and Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
  156. Physics Department, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
  157. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
  158. Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany and Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
  159. Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic and Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, ?ež u Prahy, Czech Republic.
  160. Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia and Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia.
  161. Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France.
  162. Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France and Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China.
  163. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany.
  164. Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France and Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China.
  165. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy and Centro Fermi-Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi," Rome, Italy.

PMID: 25167254 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.152301

Abstract

We report the first measurement of the net-charge fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[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 pseudorapidity interval, which may account for the dilution of fluctuations during the evolution of the system. We find that the fluctuations at the LHC are smaller compared to the measurements at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and as such, closer to what has been theoretically predicted for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma.

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