Abstract
New measurements by the NA49 experiment of the centrality dependence of event-by-event fluctuations of the particle yield ratios , , and are presented for Pb+Pb collisions at 158 GeV. The absolute values of the dynamical fluctuations of these ratios, quantified by the measure , increase by about a factor of two from central to semiperipheral collisions. Multiplicity scaling scenarios are tested and found to apply for both the centrality and the previously published energy dependence of the and ratio fluctuations. A description of the centrality and energy dependence of ratio fluctuations by a common scaling prescription is not possible since there is a sign change in the energy dependence.
3 More- Received 11 April 2012
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.87.024902
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