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Signatures of quark-hadron phase transition are probed by the investigation of event-by-event fluctuations of hadronic patterns in heavy-ion collisions. This study intend to measure the event-to-event fluctuation of voids (non-hadronic regions) for the experimental data sets of compound hadrons of 32S-AgBr interactions at 200 AGeV. The bin size dependence of voids is numerically evaluated with two different moments 〈G q 〉 and S q defined by R.C. Hwa and Q.H. Zhang. The scaling behaviour of the voids provides an efficient way to use the scaling exponents γ q and σ q to characterize the various interesting properties of the hadronic phase transition.
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Ghosh, D., Deb, A., Mondal, M. et al. Void fluctuation study of compound hadrons: Signatures of quark-hadron phase transition. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 12, 246–250 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477115020120
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