QCD Critical Point

Connecting proton cumulants measured in the RHIC Beam Energy Scan to baryon number susceptibilities of QCD matter at finite density.

Talk at the Hadron Ion Tea (HIT) Seminar Series at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Invited talk on the QCD phase diagram at finite baryon density from heavy-ion collisions and new expansions at XQCD 2026 in Busan, Korea.

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 the search for the QCD critical point at the KITP conference on Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon Matter.

We present a study of net-proton number fluctuations in central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 7.7 - 200$ GeV using viscous hydrodynamic simulations. Proton and anti…

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.