Measuring $\mu_{B}$ at the LHC with ALICE
Abstract
The baryon chemical potential is a fundamental parameter for the statistical mechanical description of particle production in heavy-ion collisions: its value encodes the average net baryon content of the fireball at chemical freeze-out. The first measurement in high-energy Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC was published in 2018 in Nature, and it was found that MeV. In this contribution, an improved measurement based on the study of antiparticle-to-particle ratios for protons, and hypertriton () using the data collected by ALICE in Run 2 of the LHC, is presented. The isospin chemical potential is also determined via the ratio. The obtained represents the most precise measurement available.
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@article{arxiv.2301.11091,
title = {Measuring $\mu_{B}$ at the LHC with ALICE},
author = {Mario Ciacco},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.11091},
year = {2023}
}
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7 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of the 108 Congresso Nazionale SIF