QCD critical point and event-by-event fluctuations in heavy ion collisions

Abstract

A summary of work done in collaboration with K. Rajagopal and E. Shuryak. We show how heavy ion collision experiments, in particular, event-by-event fluctuation measurements, can lead to the discovery of the critical point on the phase diagram of QCD.

Comments: 4 pages. Summary of work done in collaboration with K. Rajagopal and E. Shuryak (hep-ph/9903292). To be published in the proceedings of Quark Matter 99, Torino, Italy, May 10-14, 1999