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Comparing effective temperatures in standard and Tsallis distributions from transverse momentum spectra in small collision systems

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-02-27 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The transverse momentum (pTp_T) spectra of identified light charged hadrons, specifically bosons (π±\pi^{\pm} and K±K^{\pm}) as well as fermions [p(pˉ)p(\bar p)], produced in small collision systems, namely deuteron-gold (d+Au) and proton-proton (p+p) collisions at the top energy of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) with a center-of-mass energy of sNN=200\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV, are investigated in this paper. In present study, d+Au collisions are categorized into three centrality classes: central (0--20\%), semi-central (20--40\%), and peripheral (40--100\%) collisions. Various types of distributions, including standard [Bose-Einstein (Fermi-Dirac) and Boltzmann] and Tsallis distributions, are employed to fit the same pTp_T spectra to derive different effective temperatures denoted as TeffT_{eff}. The results indicate that TeffT_{eff} values obtained from Bose-Einstein, Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, and Tsallis distributions exhibit systematically a decreasing trend. Meanwhile, these TeffT_{eff} values also show a decreasing trend with a decrease in collision centrality. Furthermore, based on the spectra of given particles, a perfect linear relationship is observed between different pairwise combinations of TeffT_{eff} derived from both Boltzmann and Bose-Einstein (Fermi-Dirac) distributions as well as between Tsallis and Bose-Einstein (Fermi-Dirac) distributions.

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@article{arxiv.2506.00339,
  title  = {Comparing effective temperatures in standard and Tsallis distributions from transverse momentum spectra in small collision systems},
  author = {Peng-Cheng Zhang and Pei-Pin Yang and Ting-Ting Duan and Hailong Zhu and Fu-Hu Liu and Khusniddin K. Olimov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.00339},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

17 pages, 8 figures. Indian Journal of Physics, accepted