# Investigating correlated fluctuations of conserved charges with net-$\Lambda$ fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions at ALICE

## TL;DR

This paper reports the first measurement of net-$\\Lambda$ fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV, providing insights into conserved charge fluctuations and the quark-gluon plasma, using a novel application of the Identity Method.

## Contribution

It introduces a new measurement of net-$\Lambda$ fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions and applies the Identity Method in a novel way to handle background effects.

## Key findings

- Results compared to baryon number conservation expectations.
- Comparison with HIJING Monte Carlo predictions.
- Dependence of fluctuations on collision centrality and pseudorapidity.

## Abstract

Event-by-event fluctuations of conserved charges - such as electric charge, strangeness, and baryon number - in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions provide insight into the properties of the quark-gluon plasma and the QCD phase diagram. They can be related to the higher moments of the multiplicity distributions of identified particles, such as the $\Lambda$ baryon which carries both strangeness and baryon number and is thus of particular interest. We present the first measurement of net-$\Lambda$ fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 5.02$ TeV as a function of centrality and the pseudorapidity acceptance of the measurement. The results are compared to expectations of the effects of global baryon number conservation as well as to predictions from the HIJING Monte Carlo event generator. In this analysis the Identity Method is applied in a novel way to account for the combinatoric background in the invariant mass distribution.