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We present the full results of the Wuppertal-Budapest lattice QCD collaboration on flavor diagonal and non-diagonal quark number susceptibilities with 2 + 1 staggered quark flavors, in a temperature range between 125 and 400 MeV. The light and strange quark masses are set to their physical values. Lattices with N t = 6, 8, 10, 12, 16 are used. We perform a continuum extrapolation of all observables under study. A Symanzik improved gauge and a stout-link improved staggered fermion action is utilized. All results are compared to the Hadron Resonance Gas model predictions: good agreement is found in the temperature region below the transition.
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Borsányi, S., Fodor, Z., Katz, S.D. et al. Fluctuations of conserved charges at finite temperature from lattice QCD. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 138 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2012)138
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