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Energy and Centrality Dependence of Chemical Freeze-out Thermodynamics parameters

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-09-04 v3 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Driven by the Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the RHIC, researches and discussions on the QCD phase diagram have flourished recently. In order to provide a reference from microscopic transport models, we performed a systematic analysis, using a multiphase transport (AMPT) model for the particle yields and a statistical model (THERMUS) for the thermal fit, for Au+Au collisions at sNN\sqrt{s_{\text{NN}}}=7.7-200 GeV. It is found that at a fixed collision centrality the chemical freeze-out parameter, temperature TchT_{\text{ch}}, increases with collision energy and somehow saturates at certain values of TchT_{\text{ch}} in collisions near sNN\sqrt{s_{\text{NN}}}=10 GeV, indicating the limiting temperature in hadronic interactions; meanwhile the baryon chemical potential μB\mu_B decrease with the collision energy. The saturation temperature is also found to be dependent on partonic interaction. At a given collision energy, it is found that both TchT_{\text{ch}} and μB\mu_B decrease towards more peripheral collisions in the grand canonical approach. The energy and centrality dependence of other chemical freeze-out parameters, strangeness chemical potential μS\mu_S, strangeness undersaturation factor γS\gamma_S, and the volume of the fireball VV are also presented in this paper. The chemical potential ratio μs/μB\mu_s/\mu_B is also compared with lattice QCD calculation. The AMPT default model gives better descriptions on both the particle yields and the chemical freeze-out parameters than those from the AMPT string-melting model.

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@article{arxiv.1404.5359,
  title  = {Energy and Centrality Dependence of Chemical Freeze-out Thermodynamics parameters},
  author = {N. Yu and F. Liu and K. Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.5359},
  year   = {2014}
}

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9 pages, 6 figures