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Statistical and dynamical fluctuations in the ratios of higher net-proton cumulants in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
With the help of transport and statistical models, we find that the ratios of higher net-proton cumulants measured at RHIC are dominated by Poisson-like statistical fluctuations. A way to eliminate this statistical fluctuation is suggested. The obtained dynamical ratios of higher net-proton cumulants are demonstrated to be more relevant to the underlying physics, i.e. the correlations between proton and antiproton, or the critical fluctuations.
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FRACTALITY IN ELEMENTARY COLLISIONS
Different fractality in hadron–hadron and e+e- collisions and its experimental observation are reviewed. The discussions on related underlying dynamics are presented.
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Locating the critical point of QCD phase transition by finite-size scaling
It is pointed out that in relativistic heavy ion collisions, critical related observable in the vicinity of critical point should follow finite-size scaling. The methods of finding and locating critical point are established for the first time by finite-size scaling and its critical characteristics, in particular, the fixed-point and straight-line behavior. As an application of the method, the critical behavior at RHIC data is demonstrated.
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On the Dominance of Statistical Fluctuation in the Factorial-Moment Study of Chaos in Low Multiplicity Events of High Energy Collisions
It is shown using Monte Carlo simulation that for low multiplicity events the single-event factorial moments are saturated by the statistical fluctuations. The diverse of the event-space moments $C_{p,q}$ of single-event moments with the diminishing of phase space scale, called ``erraticity'', observed in experiment can readily be reproduced by a flat probability distribution with only statistical fluctuations and therefore does not indicate the existence of chaos as suggested. The possibility of studying chaos in high multiplicity events using erraticity analysis is discussed.
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Statistical and dynamical fluctuations of Binder ratios in heavy ion collisions
Higher moments of the net-proton Binder ratio, which is suggested to be a good observation to locate the QCD critical point, is measured in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We first estimate the effect of statistical fluctuations of the third- and fourth-order Binder ratios. Then the dynamical Binder ratio is proposed and investigated in both transport and statistical models. The energy dependence of dynamical Binder ratios with different system sizes at RHIC beam scan energies is presented and discussed.
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Local charge nonequilibrium and anomalous energy dependence of normalized moments in narrow rapidity windows
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Lifshitz effects on holographic p-wave superfluid
Abstract In the probe limit, we numerically build a holographic p -wave superfluid model in the four-dimensional Lifshitz black hole coupled to a Maxwell-complex vector field. We observe the rich phase structure and find that the Lifshitz dynamical exponent z contributes evidently to the effective mass of the matter field and dimension of the gravitational background. Concretely, we obtain that the Cave of Winds appeared only in the five-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime, and the increasing z hinders not only the condensate but also the appearance of the first-order phase transition. Furthermore, our results agree with the Ginzburg–Landau results near the critical temperature. In addition, the previous AdS superfluid model is generalized to the Lifshitz spacetime.
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THE VARIABLE GENERALIZED CHAPLYGIN GAS MODEL WITH INTERACTION
In this paper a variable generalized Chaplygin gas (VGCG) proposal for unification of dark matter and dark energy is considered, in which dark energy interacts with dark matter. The equation of state of the VGCG is given by p = -A0a-n/ρα, where a is the scale factor. By calculations some cosmological quantities such as density parameters of baryons, dark matter and dark energy as well as the deceleration parameter are all obtained. Furthermore, the transition from deceleration to acceleration is described and the interaction between dark energy and dark matter is considered in this model. We find the behavior of VGCG is similar to dust-like matter at early times and will be quintessence or phantom at late stage. In addition the evolution trajectory of the VGCG model in the statefinder parameter s-r plane is plotted and the discrimination between this scenario and the generalized Chaplygin gas (GCG) model is illustrated.
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Constraints of energy conditions and DK instability criterion on f(R, Lm) gravity models
Some properties of f(R, Lm) gravity are studied in this paper. Concretely, the energy conditions and the Dolgov–Kawasaki (DK) instability criterion in f(R, Lm) gravity are obtained, which are quite general and can degenerate to the ones in General Relativity (GR) and pure f(R) gravity with non-coupling and non-minimal coupling as well as in [J. Wang and K. Liao, Class. Quantum Grav. 29, 215016 (2012)] as special cases. Furthermore, in order to get some insight on the meaning of the energy conditions and the DK instability criterion, we apply them to the concrete type of f(R, Lm) gravity models and the corresponding constraints on the models are given.
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CONSTRAINT ON THE KINEMATICAL AND DYNAMICAL MODEL FROM THE LATEST OBSERVATIONAL DATA
The kinematical model j(z) = j0 and dynamical model wde(z) = w0, are constrained from the latest observational data: Union2 data including 557 type Ia supernovae (SNIa), 15 observational Hubble data (OHD), baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Two-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) and CMB data from seven-year WMAP. We get the current values of deceleration parameter q0, jerk parameter j0, dimensionless matter density Ωm, equation of state for dark energy w0 and transition redshift zT. Furthermore, it is shown that for both kinematical and dynamical models, the constraint results support for the cosmic concordance model, ΛCDM.
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Thermodynamic laws for generalized f(R) gravity with curvature-matter coupling
The first law and the generalized second law (GSL) of thermodynamics for the generalized f(R) gravity with curvature-matter coupling are studied in the spatially homogeneous, isotropic FRW universe. The research results show that the field equations of the generalized f(R) gravity with curvature-matter coupling can be cast to the form of the first law of thermodynamics with the so-called the entropy production terms d (S) over bar and the GSL can be given by considering the FRW universe filled only with ordinary matter enclosed by the dynamical apparent horizon with the Hawking temperature. Furthermore, as a concrete example, by utilizing the GSL the constraints on the gravitational model with f(1)(R) = R + alpha R-1 and f(2)(R) = R-m are also discussed. It is worth noting these results given by us are quite general and can degenerate to the ones in Einstein's general relativity and pure f(R) gravity with non-coupling and non-minimal coupling as special cases. Comparing with the case of Einstein's general relativity, the appearance of the entropy production term d (S) over bar in the first law of thermodynamics demonstrates that the horizon thermodynamics is non-equilibrium one for generalized f(R) gravity with curvature-matter coupling, which is consistent with the arguments given in Akbar and Cai (2007) [13] and Eling et al. (2006) [18]. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.