| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1838128 | Nuclear Physics A | 2006 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We analyze fluctuations of quark number and electric charge, in 2-flavour QCD at finite temperature and vanishing net baryon number density. In the hadronic phase we find that an enhancement of charge fluctuations arises from contributions of doubly charged hadrons to the thermodynamics. The rapid suppression of fluctuations seen in the high temperature phase suggests that in the QGP quark number and electric charge are predominantly carried by quasi-particles with the quantum numbers of quarks.
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