From RHIC to LHC: a relativistic diffusion approach



Document title: From RHIC to LHC: a relativistic diffusion approach
Journal: Brazilian journal of physics
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000408250
ISSN: 0103-9733
Authors: 1
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Institutions: 1Heidelberg University, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemburg. Alemania
Year:
Season: Jun
Volumen: 37
Number: 2C
Pages: 782-784
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Experimental, analítico
English abstract We investigate stopping and particle production in heavy-ion collisions in a Relativistic Diffusion Model (RDM). Using three sources for particle production, the energy- and centrality dependence of rapidity distributions of net protons, and pseudorapidity distributions of charged hadrons in heavy systems at RHIC energies are precisely reproduced in the analytical model. The transport coefficients are then extrapolated from Au + Au at RHIC energies (ÖsNN=19.6 - 200 GeV) to Pb + Pb at LHC energies of ÖsNN= 5.52 TeV. Rapidity distributions for net protons, and pseudorapidity spectra for produced charged particles are obtained and discussed in a three-sources model at LHC energies
Disciplines: Física y astronomía
Keyword: Física,
Física de partículas y campos cuánticos,
Interacciones suaves,
Colisiones,
Iones pesados,
Hadrones,
Modelos de difusión
Keyword: Physics and astronomy,
Particle physics and quantum fields,
Physics,
Soft interactions,
Collisions,
Heavy ions,
Hadrons,
Diffusion models
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