Comment on `Charged Particle Ratio Fluctuation as a Signal for Quark-Gluon Plasma' and `Fluctuation Probes of Quark Deconfinement'

Abstract

Charge fluctuations studied on event-by-event basis have been recently suggested to provide a signal of the equilibrium quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions at high energies. It is argued that the fluctuations generated at the early collision stage when the energy is released can fake the signal.