Onset of radial flow in p+p collisions
Abstract
It has been debated for decades whether hadrons emerging from p+p collisions exhibit collective expansion. The signal of the collective motion in p+p collisions is not as clear/clean as in heavy-ion collisions because of the low multiplicity and large fluctuation in p+p collisions. Tsallis Blast-Wave (TBW) model is a thermodynamic approach, introduced to handle the overwhelming correlation and fluctuation in the hadronic processes. We have systematically studied the identified particle spectra in p+p collisions from RHIC to LHC using TBW and found no appreciable radial flow in p+p collisions below GeV. At LHC higher energy of 7 TeV in p+p collisions, the radial flow velocity achieves an average value of . This flow velocity is comparable to that in peripheral (40-60%) Au+Au collisions at RHIC. Breaking of the identified particle spectra scaling was also observed at LHC from a model independent test.
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@article{arxiv.1312.4230,
title = {Onset of radial flow in p+p collisions},
author = {Kun Jiang and Yinying Zhu and Weitao Liu and Hongfang Chen and Cheng Li and Lijuan Ruan and Ming Shao and Zebo Tang and Zhangbu Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.4230},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 figures, add nearly 300 data points from ALICE experiment by their request.Rephrased a little bit. Results and conclusions remain the same