2012/10/29 by A. Andronic, P. Braun‐Munzinger, P. Braun-Munzinger +2 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Alice (programming language) #Anomaly (physics) #Computer science #Hadron #Hadronization #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Large Hadron Collider #Meson #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Plasma #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quark–gluon plasma #Statistical model #Statistics #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2013.02.070
4 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of QM2012
arxiv created 2012/10/29 · openalex publication_date 2013/05/01 · arxiv updated 2015/06/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We briefly review the predictions of the thermal model for hadron production in comparison to latest data from RHIC and extrapolate the calculations to LHC energy. Our main emphasis is to confront the model predictions with the recently released data from ALICE at the LHC. This comparison reveals an apparent anomaly for protons and anti-protons which we discuss briefly. We also demonstrate that our statistical hadronization predictions for J/ψ production agree very well with the most recent LHC data, lending support to the picture in which there is complete charmonium melting in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) followed by statistical generation of J/ψ mesons at the phase boundary.