Event-by-event efficiency fluctuations and efficiency correction for cumulants of superposed multiplicity distributions in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments

[1]
S. Gupta, X. Luo, B. Mohanty, H. G. Ritter, and N. Xu, Science, 332:1525 (2011), arXiv:1105.3934[hep-ph].
[2]
J. Cleymans, H. Satz, E. Suhonen, and D. W. von Oertzen, Phys. Lett. B, 242:111 (1990).
[3]
N. J. Davidson, H. G. Miller, R. M. Quick, and J. Cleymans, Phys. Lett. B, 255:105 (1991).
[4]
H.-L. Lao, F.-H. Liu, B.-C. Li, and M.-Y. Duan, Nucl. Sci. Tech., 29:82 (2018), arXiv:1703.04944[nucl-th].
[5]
L. Adamczyk et al (STAR), Phys. Rev. Lett., 112:162301 (2014), arXiv:1401.3043[nucl-ex].
[6]
J. Brachmann, S. Soff, A. Dumitru, H. Stoecker, J. A. Maruhn, W. Greiner, L. V. Bravina, and D. H. Rischke, Phys. Rev. C, 61:024909 (2000), arXiv:nucl-th/9908010[nuclth].
[7]
H. Song, Y. Zhou, and K. Gajdosova, Nucl. Sci. Tech., 28:99 (2017), arXiv:1703.00670[nucl-th].
[8]
K. Hattori and X.-G. Huang, Nucl. Sci. Tech., 28:26 (2017), arXiv:1609.00747[nucl-th].
[9]
Y. Aoki, G. Endrodi, Z. Fodor, S. D. Katz, and K. K. Szabo, Nature, 443:675 (2006), arXiv:hep-lat/0611014[hep-lat].
[10]
B. J. Schaefer and M. Wagner, Phys. Rev. D, 85:034027 (2012), arXiv:1111.6871[hep-ph].
[11]
M. Asakawa, S. Ejiri, and M. Kitazawa, Phys. Rev. Lett., 103:262301 (2009), arXiv:0904.2089[nucl-th].
[12]
G. Endrodi, Z. Fodor, S. D. Katz, and K. K. Szabo, JHEP, 04:001 (2011), arXiv:1102.1356[hep-lat].
[13]
M. A. Stephanov, Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl., 153:139 (2004),[Int. J. Mod. Phys. A, 20:4387 (2005)], arXiv:hepph/0402115[hep-ph].
[14]
J.-W. Chen, J. Deng, H. Kohyama, and L. Labun, Phys. Rev. D, 93:034037 (2016), arXiv:1509.04968[hep-ph].
[15]
V. Vovchenko, D. V. Anchishkin, M. I. Gorenstein, and R. V. Poberezhnyuk, Phys. Rev. C, 92:054901 (2015), arXiv:1506.05763[nucl-th].
[16]
V. Vovchenko, M. I. Gorenstein, and H. Stoecker, Phys. Rev. Lett., 118:182301 (2017), arXiv:1609.03975[hep-ph].
[17]
W. Fan, X. Luo, and H. Zong, Identifying the presence of the critical end point in QCD phase diagram by higher order susceptibilities, (2017), arXiv:1702.08674[hep-ph].
[18]
K. Fukushima, Phys. Rev. C, 91:044910 (2015), arXiv:1409.0698[hep-ph].
[19]
F. Karsch and K. Redlich, Phys. Lett. B, 695:136 (2011), arXiv:1007.2581[hep-ph].
[20]
P. Braun-Munzinger, B. Friman, F. Karsch, K. Redlich, and V. Skokov, Phys. Rev. C, 84:064911 (2011), arXiv:1107.4267[hep-ph].
[21]
R. V. Gavai and S. Gupta, Phys. Lett. B, 696:459 (2011), arXiv:1001.3796[hep-lat].
[22]
S. Borsanyi, Z. Fodor, S. D. Katz, S. Krieg, C. Ratti, and K. K. Szabo, Phys. Rev. Lett., 111:062005 (2013), arXiv:1305.5161[hep-lat].
[23]
A. Bazavov et al, Phys. Rev. Lett., 109:192302 (2012), arXiv:1208.1220[hep-lat].
[24]
K. Morita, B. Friman, and K. Redlich, Phys. Lett. B, 741:178 (2015), arXiv:1402.5982[hep-ph].
[25]
L. Jiang, P. Li, and H. Song, Nucl. Phys. A, 956:360 (2016), arXiv:1512.07373[nucl-th].
[26]
L. Jiang, P. Li, and H. Song, Phys. Rev. C, 94:024918 (2016), arXiv:1512.06164[nucl-th].
[27]
L. Adamczyk et al (STAR), Phys. Rev. Lett., 113:092301 (2014), arXiv:1402.1558[nucl-ex].
[28]
P. Alba, W. Alberico, R. Bellwied, M. Bluhm, V. Mantovani Sarti, M. Nahrgang, and C. Ratti, Phys. Lett. B, 738:305 (2014), arXiv:1403.4903[hep-ph].
[29]
X. Luo and N. Xu, Nucl. Sci. Tech., 28:112 (2017), arXiv:1701.02105[nucl-ex].
[30]
S. Ejiri, F. Karsch, and K. Redlich, Phys. Lett. B, 633:275 (2006), arXiv:hep-ph/0509051[hep-ph].
[31]
M. A. Stephanov, K. Rajagopal, and E. V. Shuryak, Phys. Rev. D, 60:114028 (1999), arXiv:hep-ph/9903292[hep-ph].
[32]
M. A. Stephanov, Phys. Rev. Lett., 102:032301 (2009), arXiv:0809.3450[hep-ph].
[33]
M. A. Stephanov, Phys. Rev. Lett., 107:052301 (2011),arXiv:1104.1627[hep-ph].
[34]
A. Bzdak, V. Koch, and N. Strodthoff, Phys. Rev. C, 95:054906 (2017), arXiv:1607.07375[nucl-th].
[35]
X. Luo (STAR), Nucl. Phys. A, 904-905:911c (2013),[Central Eur. J. Phys., 10:1372 (2012)], arXiv:1210.5573[nucl-ex].
[36]
B. Friman, Nucl. Phys. A, 928:198 (2014), arXiv:1404.7471[nucl-th].
[37]
M. Kitazawa and M. Asakawa, Phys. Rev. C, 85:021901 (2012), arXiv:1107.2755[nucl-th].
[38]
M. Kitazawa and M. Asakawa, Phys. Rev. C, 86:024904 (2012),[Erratum:Phys. Rev. C, 86:069902 (2012)], arXiv:1205.3292[nucl-th].
[39]
B. Friman, F. Karsch, K. Redlich, and V. Skokov, Eur. Phys. J. C, 71:1694 (2011), arXiv:1103.3511[hep-ph].
[40]
M. Cheng et al, Phys. Rev. D, 79:074505 (2009), arXiv:0811.1006[hep-lat].
[41]
X. Luo, Nucl. Phys. A, 956:75 (2016), arXiv:1512.09215[nucl-ex].
[42]
M. M. Aggarwal et al (STAR), An Experimental Exploration of the QCD Phase Diagram:The Search for the Critical Point and the Onset of De-confinement, (2010), arXiv:1007.2613[nucl-ex].
[43]
A. Zhao, X. Luo, and H. Zong, Eur. Phys. J. C, 77:207 (2017), arXiv:1609.01416[nucl-th].
[44]
S. Jeon and V. Koch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5435 (1999), arXiv:nucl-th/9906074[nucl-th].
[45]
M. Asakawa, U. W. Heinz, and B. Muller, Phys. Rev. Lett., 85:2072 (2000), arXiv:hep-ph/0003169[hep-ph].
[46]
J. Xu, J. Phys. Conf. Ser., 736:012002 (2016), arXiv:1611.07134[hep-ex].
[47]
J. Xu, S. Yu, F. Liu, and X. Luo, Phys. Rev. C, 94:024901 (2016), arXiv:1606.03900[nucl-ex].
[48]
L. Adamczyk et al (STAR), Collision Energy Dependence of Moments of Net-Kaon Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC, (2017), arXiv:1709.00773[nucl-ex].
[49]
M. M. Aggarwal et al (STAR), Phys. Rev. Lett., 105:022302 (2010), arXiv:1004.4959[nucl-ex].
[50]
L. Adamczyk et al (STAR), Phys. Rev. Lett., 112:032302 (2014), arXiv:1309.5681[nucl-ex].
[51]
X. Luo (STAR), Proceedings, 9th International Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement (CPOD 2014):Bielefeld, Germany, November 17-21, 2014, PoS, CPOD2014:019 (2015), arXiv:1503.02558[nucl-ex].
[52]
S. Mukherjee, R. Venugopalan, and Y. Yin, Phys. Rev. Lett., 117:222301 (2016), arXiv:1605.09341[hep-ph].
[53]
S. Mukherjee, R. Venugopalan, and Y. Yin, Phys. Rev. C, 92:034912 (2015), arXiv:1506.00645[hep-ph].
[54]
M. Nahrgang, M. Bluhm, P. Alba, R. Bellwied, and C. Ratti, Eur. Phys. J. C, 75:573 (2015), arXiv:1402.1238[hep-ph].
[55]
A. Bzdak, V. Koch, and V. Skokov, Phys. Rev. C, 87:014901 (2013), arXiv:1203.4529[hep-ph].
[56]
B. Ling and M. A. Stephanov, Phys. Rev. C, 93:034915 (2016), arXiv:1512.09125[nucl-th].
[57]
B. Berdnikov and K. Rajagopal, Phys. Rev. D, 61:105017 (2000), arXiv:hep-ph/9912274[hep-ph].
[58]
S. He, X. Luo, Y. Nara, S. Esumi, and N. Xu, Phys. Lett. B, 762:296 (2016), arXiv:1607.06376[nucl-ex].
[59]
M. Nahrgang, T. Schuster, M. Mitrovski, R. Stock, and M. Bleicher, Eur. Phys. J. C, 72:2143 (2012), arXiv:0903.2911[hep-ph].
[60]
M. Sakaida, M. Asakawa, and M. Kitazawa, Phys. Rev. C, 90:064911 (2014), arXiv:1409.6866[nucl-th].
[61]
B. I. Abelev et al (STAR), Phys. Rev. C, 79:034909 (2009), arXiv:0808.2041[nucl-ex].
[62]
A. Bzdak and V. Koch, Phys. Rev. C, 91:027901 (2015), arXiv:1312.4574[nucl-th].
[63]
X. Luo, Phys. Rev. C, 91:034907 (2015), arXiv:1410.3914[physics.data-an].
[64]
T. Nonaka, M. Kitazawa, and S. Esumi, Phys. Rev. C, 95:064912 (2017), arXiv:1702.07106[physics.data-an].
[65]
M. Kitazawa and X. Luo, Phys. Rev. C, 96:024910 (2017), arXiv:1704.04909[nucl-th].
[66]
X. Luo, J. Phys. G, 39:025008 (2012), arXiv:1109.0593[physics.data-an].
[67]
X. Luo, J. Xu, B. Mohanty, and N. Xu, J. Phys. G, 40:105104 (2013), arXiv:1302.2332[nucl-ex].
[68]
W. R. Leo, Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments:A How to Approach (Berlin, Germany:Springer (1987) 368, 1987).
[69]
S. A. Bass et al, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys., 41:255 (1998),[Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys., 41:225 (1998)], arXiv:nucl-th/9803035[nucl-th].
[70]
S. He and X. Luo, Phys. Lett. B, 774:623 (2017), arXiv:1704.00423[nucl-ex]