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Transverse spectra of hadrons at RHIC

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We present results on spectra of pions, kaons and (anti)protons from a study of heavy ion collisions using the perturbative QCD + saturation model to calculate the production of initial (transverse) energy and baryon number followed by a hydrodynamic description of the expansion of produced matter. In particular, we study how the hadron spectra and multiplicities depend on the decoupling temperature \Tdec\Tdec when the low temperature phase contains all hadrons and and hadron resonances with mass below 2 GeV. We show that the spectra and multiplicities of pions, kaons and (anti)protons measured at RHIC in central Au+Au collisions with s=130\sqrt s=130 GeV can be obtained with a single decoupling temperature 150......160 MeV, common for both the chemical and the kinetic freeze-out.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0210005,
  title  = {Transverse spectra of hadrons at RHIC},
  author = {K. J. Eskola and H. Niemi and P. V. Ruuskanen and S. S. Rasanen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0210005},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 eps-figures, talk at Quark Matter '02, Nantes, France, July 2002