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    Analytical investigation for multiplicity difference correlators under QGP phase transition

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    It is suggested that the study of multiplicity difference correlators between two well-separated bins in high-energy heavy-ion collisions can be used as a means to detect evidence of a quark-hadron phase transition. Analytical expressions for the scaled factorial moments of multiplicity difference distribution are obtained in a kinetical region sˉ0.3{\bar s}\le 0.3 within Ginzburg-Landau description. It is shown that the scaling behaviors between the moments are still valid, though the behaviors of the moments with respect to the bin size are completely different from the so-called intermittency patterns. A universal exponent γ\gamma is given to describe the dynamical fluctuations in the phase transition.Comment: 5 pages, RevTeX, three figures in EPS forma

    Fractional Energy Loss and Centrality Scaling

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    The phenomenon of centrality scaling in the high-\pt spectra of π0\pi^0 produced in Au-Au collisions at s=200\sqrt s=200 GeV is examined in the framework of relating fractional energy loss to fractional centrality increase. A new scaling behavior is found where the scaling variable is given a power-law dependence on NpartN_{\rm part}. The exponent γ\gamma specifies the fractional proportionality relationship between energy loss and centrality, and is a phenomenologically determined number that characterizes the nuclear suppression effect. The implication on the parton energy loss in the context of recombination is discussed.Comment: 4 pages in RevTe
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