Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

This document is part of Volume 23 ‘Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics’ of Landolt-Börnstein - Group I ‘Elementary Particles, Nuclei and Atoms’. It contains the Section ‘8.1 Hadronic Fluctuations and Correlations’ of the Chapter ‘8 The Final Expansion State of Relativistic Nuclear Collisions’ with the content: 8.1 Hadronic Fluctuations and Correlations 8.1.1 Introduction 8.1.2 Fluctuations and Correlations in a thermal system and from Lattice QCD 8.1.3 Fluctuations and correlations of conserved charges 8.1.4 Observables 8.1.4.1 Fluctuations of Ratios 8.1.4.1.1 Examples: Fluctuations of the mean transverse momentum and particle ratios 8.1.5 Fluctuations and the QCD critical point 8.1.6 Summary and Conclusions