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Production of Light Nuclei in Heavy Ion Collisions Within Multiple Freezeout Scenario

Nuclear Theory 2014-11-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We discuss the production of light nuclei in heavy ion collisions within a multiple freezeout scenario. Thermal parameters extracted from the fits to the observed hadron yields are used to predict the multiplicities of light nuclei. Ratios of strange to non strange nuclei are found to be most sensitive to the details of the chemical freezeout. The well known disagreement between data of Λ3H/3He^3_\Lambda\text{H/}^3\text{He} and Λ3H/3He\overline{^3_\Lambda\text{H/}^3\text{He}} at sNN=200\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV and models based on thermal as well as simple coalescence using a single chemical freezeout surface goes away when we let the strange and non strange hadrons freezeout at separate surfaces. At the LHC energy of sNN=2700\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2700 GeV, multiple freezeout scenario within a thermal model provides a consistent framework to describe the yields of all measured hadrons and nuclei.

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@article{arxiv.1405.2632,
  title  = {Production of Light Nuclei in Heavy Ion Collisions Within Multiple Freezeout Scenario},
  author = {Sandeep Chatterjee and Bedangadas Mohanty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.2632},
  year   = {2014}
}