Net-charge fluctuation in Au+Au collisions at energies available at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research using the UrQMD model

TL;DR

This study investigates net-charge fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at energies relevant to FAIR, using the UrQMD model, revealing energy-dependent behaviors and the importance of global charge conservation effects.

Contribution

First application of UrQMD to simulate net-charge fluctuations at FAIR energies, analyzing centrality and pseudorapidity dependence, and comparing with existing experimental data.

Findings

Net-charge fluctuation magnitude is very large at 10A GeV.

Fluctuation dependence on pseudorapidity window size varies with collision centrality.

Results are consistent with experimental observations at similar energies.

Abstract

We have studied the dynamical fluctuation of net-charge of hadrons produced in Au+Au collisions at energies that in near future will be available at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR). Data simulated by a microscopic transport model based on ultra-relativistic quantum molecular dynamics are analyzed for the purpose. The centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of the net-charge fluctuation of hadrons are examined. Our simulated results are compared with the results available for nucleus-nucleus collision experiments held at similar energies. The gross features of our simulated results on net-charge fluctuations are found to be consistent with the experiment. At incident beam energy $E_{\rm lab}=10A$ GeV the magnitude of net-charge fluctuation is very large, and in comparison with the rest its centrality dependence appears to be a little unusual. The effect of global charge conservation is expected to be very crucial at FAIR energies. The charge fluctuations measured with varying pesudorapidity window size depend on the collision centrality. The dependence is however exactly opposite in nature to that observed in the Pb+Pb collision at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}=2.76$ TeV.