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Higher Moments of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC.

We report the first measurements of the kurtosis (\kappa), skewness (S) and variance (\sigma^2) of net-proton multiplicity (N_p - N_pbar) distributions at midrapidity for Au+Au collisions at \sqrt(s_NN) = 19.6, 62.4, and 200 GeV corresponding to baryon chemical potentials (\mu_B) between 200 - 20 MeV. Our measurements of the products \kappa \sigma^2 and S \sigma, which can be related to theoretical calculations sensitive to baryon number susceptibilities and long range correlations, are constant as functions of collision centrality. We compare these products with results from lattice QCD and various models without a critical point and study the \sqrt(s_NN) dependence of \kappa \sigma^2. From the measurements at the three beam energies, we find no evidence for a critical point in the QCD phase diagram for \mu_B below 200 MeV.

heavy ion; scattering gold p; multiplicity; measured anti-p; multiplicity; measured potential; chemical multiplicity; moment baryon number; susceptibility correlation; long-range impact parameter; dependence lattice field theory energy dependence quantum chromodynamics; critical phenomena STAR Brookhaven RHIC Coll 19.6; 62.4; 200.0 GeV-cms/nucleon

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