title: Fluctuation probes of quark deconfinement
abstract: The size of the average fluctuations of net baryon number and electric charge in a finite volume of hadronic matter differs widely between the confined and deconfined phases. These differences may be exploited as indicators of the formation of a quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, because fluctuations created in the initial state survive until freeze-out due to the rapid expansion of the hot fireball.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physic, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan.
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Asakawa
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Heinz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Muller