Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.83.034910

Publication Title

Physical Review C

Volume

83

Issue

3

Pages

034910 (12 pages)

Abstract

Identified charged pion, kaon, and proton spectra are used to explore the system size dependence of bulk freeze-out properties in Cu+Cu collisions at √sNN=200 and 62.4 GeV. The data are studied with hydrodynamically motivated blast-wave and statistical model frameworks in order to characterize the freeze-out properties of the system. The dependence of freeze-out parameters on beam energy and collision centrality is discussed. Using the existing results from Au + Au and pp collisions, the dependence of freeze-out parameters on the system size is also explored. This multidimensional systematic study furthers our understanding of the QCD phase diagram revealing the importance of the initial geometrical overlap of the colliding ions. The analysis of Cu+Cu collisions expands the system size dependence studies from Au+Au data with detailed measurements in the smaller system. The systematic trends of the bulk freeze-out properties of charged particles is studied with respect to the total charged particle multiplicity at midrapidity, exploring the influence of initial state effects.

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Original Publication Citation

Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., . . . Collaboration, S. (2011). Scaling properties at freeze-out in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Physical Review C, 83(3), 034910 doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.83.034910

ORCID

0000-0002-5680-1814 (Bueltmann)

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