System-size and energy dependence of particle momentum spectra: The UrQMD analysis of p+p and Pb+Pb collisions

TL;DR

This study uses the UrQMD model to analyze how particle momentum spectra depend on system size and energy in p+p and Pb+Pb collisions, comparing model predictions with experimental data from NA61/SHINE and NA49 collaborations.

Contribution

It provides a detailed UrQMD-based analysis of pion production across different collision systems and energies, highlighting non-monotonous behaviors and isospin effects.

Findings

UrQMD predicts non-monotonous mean transverse mass in p+p collisions.

Comparison shows agreement and discrepancies with experimental data.

Isospin effects influence pion spectra.

Abstract

The UrQMD transport model is used to study a system-size and energy dependence of the pion production in high energy collisions. New data of the NA61/SHINE Collaboration on spectra of negatively charged pions in proton-proton interactions at SPS energies are considered. These results are compared with the corresponding data of the NA49 Collaboration in central Pb+Pb collisions at the same collision energies per nucleon. Mean pion multiplicity per participant nucleon, inverse slope parameter of the transverse momentum spectra, and width of rapidity distribution are investigated. A role of isospin effects is discussed. We find that the UrQMD model predicts a non-monotonous behavior of mean transverse mass with collision energy for positively charged pions at the mid-rapidity in inelastic proton-proton interactions. This will be checked soon experimentally by NA61/SHINE Collaboration.