Correlations and fluctuations of pions at the LHC

Abstract

The intriguing possibility of Bose-Einstein condensation of pions at the LHC is examined with the use of higher order moments of the multiplicity distribution. The scaled variance, skewness and kurtosis are calculated for the pion system. The obtained results show that the normalized kurtosis has a significant increase for the case of the pion condensation.

Comments: Talk presented at XI Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy, 3-7 November 2015, Warsaw, Poland