Study of event-by-event fluctuations in heavy ion collisions

Abstract

We propose Kolmogorov-Smirnov test as a means for recognising event-by-event fluctuations of rapidity distributions in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Such fluctuations may be induced by the spinodal decomposition of the rapidly expanding system during the 1st order quark-hadron phase transition.

Comments: proceedings of 16th Conference of Slovak physicists, Sept. 2007, Zilina, Slovakia