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Nuclear modification factor in Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions using Boltzmann transport equation

Nuclear Theory 2020-06-19 v1

Abstract

We investigate the nuclear modification factor (RAAR_{AA}) of identified particles as a function of transverse momentum (pTp_{\rm T}) in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}= 2.76 and 5.02 TeV, as well as p-Pb collision at 5.02 TeV in the framework of Boltzmann transport equation with relaxation time approximation. In this framework, the initial distribution of particles is chosen as the Tsallis distribution and the local equilibrium distribution as the Boltzmann-Gibbs blast-wave distribution. The non-extensive parameter qppq_{pp}, the Tsallis temperature TppT_{pp} and the equilibrium temperature TeqT_{eq} are set to be in common for all particles, while the ratio of kinetic freeze-out time to relaxation time tf/τt_{f}/\tau is different for different particles when we performed a combined fit to the RAAR_{AA} spectra of different particles at a given centrality. We observe that the fitted curves describe the spectra well up to pTp_{\rm T}\approx 3 GeV/c. qppq_{pp} and TeqT_{eq} (tf/τt_{f}/\tau) decrease (increases) with centrality nonlinearly, while TppT_{pp} is almost independent of centrality. The dependence of the rate at which qppq_{pp}, TeqT_{eq} or tf/τt_{f}/\tau changes with centrality on the energy and the size of the colliding system is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2004.03081,
  title  = {Nuclear modification factor in Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions using Boltzmann transport equation},
  author = {L. Qiao and G. Che and J. Gu and H. Zheng and W. C. Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.03081},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

14 pages, 6 figures. Accepted by J. Phys. G

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