Microscopic study of deuteron production in PbPb collisions at s=2.76TeV\sqrt{s} = 2.76 TeV via hydrodynamics and a hadronic afterburner

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Sep 9, 2018
11 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.C 99 (2019) 4, 044907
  • Published: Apr 12, 2019
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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.
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  • 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