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We present results for the ratios of mean ($M_B$), variance ($sigma_B^2$), skewness ($S_B)$ and kurtosis ($kappa_B$) of net baryon-number fluctuations obtained in lattice QCD calculations with a physical light to strange quark mass ratio. Using next-to-leading order Taylor expansions in baryon chemical potential we find that qualitative features of these ratios closely resemble the corresponding experimentally measured cumulants ratios of net proton-number fluctuations for beam energies down to $sqrt{s_{_{NN}}} ge 19.6$ GeV. We show that the difference in cumulant ratios for the mean net baryon-number, $M_B/sigma_B^2=chi_1^B(T,mu_B)/chi_2^B(T,mu_B)$ and the normalized skewness, $S_Bsigma_B=chi_3^B(T,mu_B)/chi_2^B(T,mu_B)$, naturally arises in QCD thermodynamics. Moreover, we establish a close relation between skewness and kurtosis ratios, $S_Bsigma_B^3/M_B=chi_3^B(T,mu_B)/chi_1^B(T,mu_B)$ and $kappa_Bsigma_B^2=chi_4^B(T,mu_B)/chi_2^B(T,mu_B)$, valid at small values of the baryon chemical potential.
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We present new results on up to $6^{th}$ order cumulants of net baryon-number fluctuations at small values of the baryon chemical potential, $mu_B$, obtained in lattice QCD calculations with physical values of light and strange quark masses. Representation of the Taylor expansions of higher order cumulants in terms of the ratio of the two lowest order cumulants, $M_B/sigma_B^2=chi_1^B(T,mu_B)/chi_2^B(T,mu_B)$, allows for a parameter free comparison with data on net proton-number cumulants obtained by the STAR Collaboration in the Beam Energy Scan at RHIC. We show that recent high statistics data on skewness and kurtosis ratios of net proton-number distributions, obtained at beam energy $sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}=54.4$ GeV, agree well with lattice QCD results on cumulants of net baryon-number fluctuations close to the pseudo-critical temperature, $T_{pc}(mu_B)$, for the chiral transition in QCD. We also present first results from a next-to-leading order expansion of $5^{th}$ and $6^{th}$ order cumulants on the line of pseudo-critical temperatures.
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