Effects of volume corrections and resonance decays on cumulants of   net-charge distributions in a Monte Carlo hadron resonance gas model
  The effects of volume corrections and resonance decays (the resulting correlations between positive charges and negative charges) on cumulants of net-proton distributions and net-charge distributions are investigated by using a Monte Carlo hadron resonance gas ({\tt MCHRG}) model. The required volume distributions are generated by a Monte Carlo Glauber ({\tt MC-Glb}) model. Except the variances of net-charge distributions, the {\tt MCHRG} model with more realistic simulations of volume corrections, resonance decays and acceptance cuts can reasonably explain the data of cumulants of net-proton distributions and net-charge distributions reported by the STAR collaboration. The {\tt MCHRG} calculations indicate that both the volume corrections and resonance decays make the cumulant products of net-charge distributions deviate from the Skellam expectations: the deviations of $S\sigma$ and $\kappa\sigma^{2}$ are dominated by the former effect while the deviations of $\omega$ are dominated by the latter one. 
Hao-jie Xu
nucl-th hep-ph nucl-ex