Abstract: BNL-RHIC. We report the first measurements of the kurtosis ($\kappa$), skewness (S) and variance ($\sigma^2$) of net-proton multiplicity ($N_p - N_{pbar}$) distributions at midrapidity for Au+Au collisions at$\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 19.6, 62.4, and 200 GeV corresponding to baryon chemical potentials ($\mu_B$) between 200 - 20 MeV. Our measurements of the products $\kappa \sigma^2$ and $S \sigma$, which can be related to theoretical calculations sensitive to baryon number susceptibilities and long range correlations, are constant as functions of collis...
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