Searching for QCD critical point with light nuclei

Density fluctuations and correlations due to a first-order quark-gluon plasma to hadronic matter phase transition and its critical end point,if they remain present after the hadronic evolution in a heavy ion collisions,can lead to an enhanced production of light nuclei in these collisions.This would then result in a non-monotonic collision energy dependence of the yield ratio NtNp∕Nd2of proton number Np,deuteron number Nd,and triton number Nt.Measurements of this yield ratio as a function of collision energy thus provides the possibility to probe the equation of state of strong-interaction matter and its phase diagram.