Comparing effective temperatures in standard and Tsallis distributions from transverse momentum spectra in small collision systems
Abstract
The transverse momentum () spectra of identified light charged hadrons, specifically bosons ( and ) as well as fermions [], 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 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 spectra to derive different effective temperatures denoted as . The results indicate that values obtained from Bose-Einstein, Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, and Tsallis distributions exhibit systematically a decreasing trend. Meanwhile, these 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 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}
}
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17 pages, 8 figures. Indian Journal of Physics, accepted