Longitudinal dynamics and particle production in relativistic nuclear collisions

Mar 9, 2022
19 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.C 105 (2022) 6, 064905,
  • Phys.Rev.C 105 (2022) 6, 064905
  • Published: Jun 8, 2022
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Abstract: (APS)
This work presents a three-dimensional dynamical initialization model for relativistic heavy-ion collisions, implementing local energy-momentum conservation and baryon charge fluctuations at string junctions. Constraining parameters using experimental data from p+p collisions at various collision energies, the model provides a very good description of the charged hadron and net proton rapidity distributions in Au+Au collisions from 7.7 to 200 GeV and Pb+Pb collisions at 8.77 and 17.3 GeV. We demonstrate the importance of fluctuations of baryon densities to string junctions for describing net-proton distributions at collision energies of 62.4 and 200 GeV. Including this improved baryon stopping description along with the requirement of strangeness neutrality also yields a good description of identified particle yields as functions of the collision energy above 7.7 GeV. We further study asymmetric p+Al and (p,d,He3)+Au collisions at the top Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) energy and p+Pb, Xe+Xe, and Pb+Pb collisions at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies. We identify the produced particle rapidity distributions in asymmetric collision systems as particularly useful for constraining models of the early-time longitudinal dynamics.
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  • 20 pages, 19 figures
  • p: rapidity
  • charge: fluctuation
  • baryon: charge
  • p: asymmetry
  • particle: yield
  • baryon: density
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • energy-momentum: conservation law
  • p p: scattering
  • p nucleus: scattering