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Study the Longitudinal Entropy Deposition using d+Au Collision

Nuclear Theory 2026-07-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Relativistic hydrodynamics successfully describes bulk observables in symmetric heavy-ion collisions, but struggles to reproduce charged-particle rapidity distributions in asymmetric systems such as d+Au collisions. To address this challenge, we introduce two key improvements to the initial-state modeling: sampling deuteron configurations from an ab initio wavefunction, and developing a new longitudinal entropy deposition model that incorporates a transverse entropy deposition coefficient β\beta and a rapidity loss term scaling with the number of binary collisions nBCn_{\rm BC}. Using the (3+1)-dimensional viscous hydrodynamic model CLVisc coupled with the SMASH afterburner, we simulate d+Au collisions at sNN=200\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 200 GeV and successfully reproduce the experimental charged-particle pseudorapidity distributions across five centrality classes with β=0.35\beta = 0.35, as well as the transverse momentum spectra and anisotropic flow vnv_n. The entropy deposition coefficient β\beta and the nBCn_{\rm BC}-dependent rapidity loss are found to play crucial roles in achieving this agreement. Furthermore, this longitudinal entropy deposition framework demonstrates excellent universality, as validated in p+Au, 3^3He+Au, and Au+Au collisions. Our entropy deposition mechanism could be widely applied to recent light-nucleus collisions such as O+O, Ne+Ne, and asymmetric systems like Pb+Ne at LHC energies, thereby better constraining the nuclear structure of light nuclei through an improved longitudinal description.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.24153,
  title  = {Study the Longitudinal Entropy Deposition using d+Au Collision},
  author = {Zhu Meng and Weiyao Ke and Long-Gang Pang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.24153},
  year   = {2026}
}

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20 pages, 16 figures, 1 table