Microscopic study of deuteron production in PbPb collisions at via hydrodynamics and a hadronic afterburner
Sep 9, 201811 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.C 99 (2019) 4, 044907
- Published: Apr 12, 2019
e-Print:
- 1809.03071 [hep-ph]
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Abstract: (APS)
The deuteron yield in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=2.76TeV is consistent with thermal production at a freeze out temperature of T=155MeV. The existence of deuterons with binding energy of 2.2 MeV at this temperature was described as “snowballs in hell” [P. Braun-Münzinger, B. Dönigus, and N. Löher, CERN Courier, August 2015]. We provide a microscopic explanation of this phenomenon, utilizing relativistic hydrodynamics and switching to a hadronic afterburner at the above-mentioned temperature of T=155MeV. The measured deuteron pT spectra and coalescence parameter B2(pT) are reproduced without free parameters, only by implementing experimentally known cross sections of deuteron reactions with hadrons, most importantly πd↔πnp.Note:
- 13 pages, 10 figures, version accepted to publication
- 25.75.Dw
- Heavy ion collisions
- deuteron
- transport approach
- relativistic hydrodynamics
- Relativistic Nuclear Collisions
- deuteron: yield
- heavy ion: scattering
- freeze-out: temperature
- hydrodynamics: relativistic
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