Systematic procedure for analyzing cumulants at any order

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We present a systematic procedure for analyzing cumulants to arbitrary order in the context of heavy-ion collisions.

• It generalizes and improves existing procedures in many respects.
• In particular, particles which are correlated are allowed to belong to different phase-space windows, which may overlap.
• It also allows for the analysis of cumulants at any order, using a simple algorithm rather than complicated expressions to be derived and coded by hand.