Exploring the freeze-out hypersurface of relativistic nuclear collisions with a rapidity-dependent thermal model

2023/12/14 by Gao, Han, Du, Lipei, Jeon, Sangyong +1
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.09103

Abstract

Considering applications to relativistic heavy-ion collisions, we develop a rapidity-dependent thermal model that includes thermal smearing effect and longitudinal boost. We calibrate the model with thermal yields obtained from a multistage hydrodynamic simulation. Through Bayesian analysis, we find that our model extracts freeze-out thermodynamics with better precision than rapidity-independent models. The potential of such a model to constrain longitudinal flow from data is also demonstrated.

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