Fluctuations

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.

The D-measure of the event-by-event net charge fluctuations was introduced over 20 years ago as a potential signal of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions, based on the…

We calculate non-Gaussian cumulants of particle number near the 3D-Ising critical point by means of GPU-accelerated molecular dynamics simulations. We perform ensemble averaging wi…

Lecture on high-density QCD and the QCD phase diagram for early career researchers, covering recent theoretical and experimental developments in the search for the QCD critical point and the exploration of the high-baryon density region of the phase diagram