Lattice QCD predictions for shapes of event distributions along the freezeout curve in heavy-ion collisions

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We present lattice QCD results along the freezeout curve of heavy-ion collisions for the ongoing RHIC energy scan as well as the LHC heavy-ion runs planned for this year.

• The skew and kurtosis of the event distribution of baryon number are positive at all energies studied, We predict three ratios of non-linear susceptibilities along the freezeout curve as functions of the colliding energy, Sqrt[S_{NN}].
• They have smooth behaviour except in the vicinity of a critical point; this can have multiple benefits.