Collision-energy dependence of deuteron cumulants and proton-deuteron correlations in Au+Au collisions at RHIC
- We report the first measurements of cumulants, up to 4th order, of deuteron number distributions and proton-deuteron correlations in Au+Au collisions recorded by the STAR experiment in phase-I of Beam Energy Scan (BES-I) program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Deuteron cumulants, their ratios, and proton-deuteron mixed cumulants are presented for different collision centralities covering a range of center of mass energy per nucleon pair sNN−−−√ = 7.7 to 200 GeV. It is found that the cumulant ratios at lower collision energies favor a canonical ensemble over a grand canonical ensemble in thermal models. An anti-correlation between proton and deuteron multiplicity is observed across all collision energies and centralities, consistent with the expectation from global baryon number conservation. The UrQMD model coupled with a phase-space coalescence mechanism qualitatively reproduces the collision-energy dependence of cumulant ratios and proton-deuteron correlations.
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-861714 |
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URL: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10993v1 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2304.10993 |
ArXiv Id: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10993v1 |
Parent Title (English): | arXiv |
Publisher: | arXiv |
Document Type: | Preprint |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2023/04/21 |
Date of first Publication: | 2023/04/21 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Creating Corporation: | STAR Collaboration |
Release Date: | 2024/07/08 |
Issue: | 2304.10993v1 |
Edition: | Version 1 |
Page Number: | 7 |
Institutes: | Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | ![]() |