Study of $p_\mathrm{T}$-differential radial flow in blast-wave model
Abstract
The transverse momentum-differential radial flow observable , recently proposed and measured by the ATLAS and ALICE collaborations, provides a novel tool to probe radial expansion dynamics in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. In this work, we conduct a detailed study of using a blast-wave model that incorporates hydrodynamic-like expansion and thermal emission. We introduce event-by-event fluctuations in the transverse expansion velocity and kinetic freeze-out temperature using Gaussian probability distributions. Our results show that increasing the mean expansion velocity leads to a clear mass ordering in , while fluctuations in both expansion velocity and freeze-out temperature significantly enhance the magnitude of , particularly at higher . We fit blast-wave model calculations for identified hadrons (, K, and p) to recent ALICE data from Pb--Pb collisions at = 5.02 TeV using a Bayesian parameter estimation framework. The extracted mean transverse expansion velocity decreases, while the kinetic freeze-out temperature increases, from central to peripheral collisions. Additionally, the freeze-out temperatures inferred from are systematically higher than those obtained from conventional -spectra fits, likely due to the reduced sensitivity of to resonance decay contributions.
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@article{arxiv.2505.19697,
title = {Study of $p_\mathrm{T}$-differential radial flow in blast-wave model},
author = {Swati Saha and Ranbir Singh and Bedangadas Mohanty},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.19697},
year = {2025}
}
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10 pages and 8 figures