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Dependence of hadron spectra on decoupling temperature and resonance contributions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Using equilibrium hydrodynamics with initial conditions for the energy and net baryon number densities from the perturbative QCD + saturation model, a good simultaneous description of the measured pion, kaon and (anti)proton spectra in central Au+Au collisions at s=130A\sqrt s=130 AGeV is found with a single decoupling temperature \Tdec=150...160\Tdec=150...160 MeV. The interplay between the resonance content of the EoS and the development of the transverse flow leads to inverse slopes and <pT><p_T> of hadrons which increase with decreasing \Tdec\Tdec. The origin of this result is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0206230,
  title  = {Dependence of hadron spectra on decoupling temperature and resonance contributions},
  author = {K. J. Eskola and H. Niemi and P. V. Ruuskanen and S. S. Räsänen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0206230},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 eps-figures. Section 3 rewritten, table 1 and figure 1 redrawn, 2 references added