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Extracting kinetic freeze-out temperature and radial flow velocity from an improved Tsallis distribution

Nuclear Theory 2017-05-17 v4 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We analyze the transverse momentum (pTp_T) spectra of identified particles (π±\pi^{\pm}, K±K^{\pm}, pp, and pˉ\bar p) produced in gold-gold (Au-Au) and lead-lead (Pb-Pb) collisions over a sNN\sqrt{s_{NN}} (center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair) range from 14.5 GeV [one of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) energies] to 2.76 TeV [one of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies]. For the spectra with a narrow pTp_T range, an improved Tsallis distribution which is in fact the Tsallis distribution with radial flow is used. For the spectra with a wide pTp_T range, a superposition of the improved Tsallis distribution and an inverse power-law is used. Both the extracted kinetic freeze-out temperature (T0T_0) and radial flow velocity (βT\beta_T) increase with the increase of sNN\sqrt{s_{NN}}, which indicates a higher excitation and larger expansion of the interesting system at the LHC. Both the values of T0T_0 and βT\beta_T in central collisions are slightly larger than those in peripheral collisions, and they are independent of isospin and slightly dependent on mass.

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@article{arxiv.1611.08391,
  title  = {Extracting kinetic freeze-out temperature and radial flow velocity from an improved Tsallis distribution},
  author = {Hai-Ling Lao and Fu-Hu Liu and Roy A. Lacey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.08391},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

We have corrected the pseudorapidity ranges of the data quoted in this paper. The PHENIX data should be in the pseudorapidity range $|\eta|<0.35$, but not the rapidity range $|y|<0.5$; and the ALICE data should be in $|\eta|<0.8$ for high transverse momentum region and $|y|<0.5$ for low transverse momentum region, but not only $|y|<0.5$. These do not affect the results of the publication