English

Centrality dependence of freeze-out parameters from the beam energy scan at STAR

Nuclear Experiment 2014-05-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The STAR experiment at RHIC has a unique capability of measuring identified hadrons over a wide range of pseudorapidity (η\eta), transverse momentum (pTp_{T}), and azimuthal angle (ϕ\phi) acceptance. The data collected (sNN\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 7.7, 11.5, and 39 GeV) in its beam energy scan (BES) program provide a chance to investigate the final hadronic state freeze-out conditions of ultrarelativistic Au+Au collisions. The particle ratios are used to compare to a statistical model calculation using both grand canonical and strangeness canonical ensembles to extract the chemical freeze-out parameters. The pTp_{T} distributions are fitted to calculations using a blast-wave model to obtain the kinetic freeze-out parameters. We discuss the centrality dependence of the extracted chemical and kinetic freeze-out parameters at these lower energies.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1210.6099,
  title  = {Centrality dependence of freeze-out parameters from the beam energy scan at STAR},
  author = {Sabita Das},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.6099},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

4 pages, 9 figures, Quark Matter 2012 proceedings