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Freezeout systematics due to the hadron spectrum

Nuclear Theory 2017-11-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We investigate systematics of the freezeout surface in heavy ion collisions due to the hadron spectrum. The role of suspected resonance states that are yet to be confirmed experimentally in identifying the freezeout surface has been investigated. We have studied two different freezeout schemes - unified freezeout scheme where all hadrons are assumed to freezeout at the same thermal state and a flavor dependent sequential freezeout scheme with different freezeout thermal states for hadrons with or without valence strange quarks. The data of mean hadron yields as well as scaled variance of net proton and net charge distributions have been analysed. We find the freezeout temperature TT to drop by 5%\sim5\% while the dimensionless freezeout parameters μB/T\mu_B/T and VT3VT^3 (μB\mu_B and VV are the baryon chemical potential and the volume at freezeout respectively) are insensitive to the systematics of the input hadron spectrum. The observed hint of flavor hierarchy in TT and VT3VT^3 with only confirmed resonances survives the systematics of the hadron spectrum. It is more prominent between sNN10100\sqrt{s_{NN}}\sim10 - 100 GeV where the maximum hierarchy in T10%T\sim10\% and VT340%VT^3\sim40\%. However, the uncertainties in the thermal parameters due to the systematics of the hadron spectrum and their decay properties do not allow us to make a quantitative estimate of the flavor hierarchy yet.

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@article{arxiv.1708.08152,
  title  = {Freezeout systematics due to the hadron spectrum},
  author = {Sandeep Chatterjee and Debadeepti Mishra and Bedangadas Mohanty and Subhasis Samanta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.08152},
  year   = {2017}
}

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