Fluctuations

Presentation on probing fractional quark charges and remnants of chiral criticality with fluctuations at the LHC.

Presentation on the QCD phase diagram with constant entropy contours and fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions at the Buenas Ideas workshop in Kyoto.

Presentation on proton cumulants at RHIC, the antiproton puzzle, factorial cumulants, and baryon susceptibilities at CPOD 2026.

Presentation on canonical statistical hadronization with local charge conservation for fluctuations and correlations at CPOD 2026.

Presentation on proton cumulants at the Workshop on High Baryon Density Physics in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions at LBNL.

Presentation on disentangling equation of state and canonical ensemble effects on proton fluctuations via a density correlations formalism at the APS Global Physics Summit 2026.

Talk on the phase structure of QCD and the nature of the transition between hadronic matter and quark-gluon plasma at extreme temperatures.

Panel talk at the INT program "The QCD Critical Point: Are We There Yet?" covering lower-order fluctuations and theory-data comparisons.

Presentation on cumulants and fluctuations measurements at the RHIC Beam Energy Scan Phase II at the BES workshop during the 2025 RHIC/AGS Annual Users' Meeting.

We analyze the behavior of ordinary and factorial cumulants of proton number in heavy-ion collisions in the context of new RHIC-BES-II data, their implications for the QCD critical point search, as well as the behavior of scaled factorial cumulants of protons and antiprotons, pointing out challenges in describing antiprotons and possible incomplete equilibration between stopped and produced matter in heavy-ion collisions.