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Extracting temperature and transverse flow by fitting transverse mass spectra and HBT radii together

Nuclear Theory 2017-03-07 v2

Abstract

Single particle transverse mass spectra and HBT radii of identical pion and identical kaon are analyzed with a blast-wave parametrization under the assumptions local thermal equilibrium and transverse expansion. Under the assumptions, temperature parameter TT and transverse expansion rapidity ρ\rho are sensitive to the shapes of transverse mass mTm_\text T spectrum and HBT radius Rs(KT)R_\text{s}(K_\text T). Negative and positive correlations between TT and ρ\rho are observed by fitting mTm_\text{T} spectrum and HBT radius Rs(KT)R_\text s (K_\text T), respectively. For a Monte Carlo simulation using the blast-wave function, TT and ρ\rho are extracted by fitting mTm_T spectra and HBT radii together utilizing a combined optimization function χ2\chi^2. With this method, TT and ρ\rho of the Monte Carlo sources can be extracted. Using this method for A Multi-Phase Transport model (AMPT) at RHIC energy, the differences of TT and ρ\rho between pion and kaon are observed obviously, and the tendencies of TT and ρ\rho vs collision energy sNN\sqrt{s_\text{NN}} are similar with the results extracted directly from the AMPT model.

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@article{arxiv.1608.04068,
  title  = {Extracting temperature and transverse flow by fitting transverse mass spectra and HBT radii together},
  author = {Ronghua He and Jing Qian and Jianyi Chen and Qingxin Wu and Lei Huo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.04068},
  year   = {2017}
}

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14 pages, 5 figures