Higher order fluctuations of conserved charges in heavy ion collisions

Abstract

We investigate the effect of the global charge conservation on the cumulants of conserved charges in relativistic heavy ion collisions in a finite rapidity window by studying the time evolution of cumulants in the hadronic medium. It is argued that the global charge conservation does not affect the experimental result of the net-electric charge fluctuation observed by ALICE, because of the finite diffusion distance of charged particles in the hadronic stage.

Comments: 4pages, 2 figures; proceedings of Hot Quarks 2014, September 21-27, 2014, Las Negras, Spain