title: Critical opalescence in baryonic QCD matter.
abstract: We show that critical opalescence, a clear signature of second-order phase transition in conventional matter, manifests itself as critical intermittency in QCD matter produced in experiments with nuclei. This behavior is revealed in transverse momentum spectra as a pattern of power laws in factorial moments, to all orders, associated with baryon production. This phenomenon together with a similar effect in the isoscalar sector of pions (sigma mode) provide us with a set of observables associated with the search for the QCD critical point in experiments with nuclei at high energies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Athens, 15771 Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: N G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Antoniou
authors.forename: F K
authors.initials: FK
authors.lastname: Diakonos
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Kapoyannis
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Kousouris