Study of Centrality Dependence of Transverse Momentum Spectra of Hadrons and the Freeze-out Parameters at root(sNN) of 62.4 GeV, 130 GeV and 200 GeV

TL;DR

This study models the transverse momentum spectra and rapidity distributions of various hadrons in central Au+Au collisions at RHIC energies, extracting freeze-out parameters and analyzing energy and centrality dependence.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive thermal freeze-out model that accounts for rapidity and transverse boosts, providing detailed freeze-out conditions across energies and centralities.

Findings

Freeze-out parameters vary with centrality and energy.

Higher energy leads to increased nuclear transparency.

Strange hyperons freeze out earlier during evolution.

Abstract

We attempt to describe the rapidity distribution of P, P-bar, K+ and K- for the most central Au+Au collisions at root(sNN) of 62.4 GeV,130 GeV and 200 GeV. The transverse momentum spectra of strange as well as non-strange hadrons e.g. P, P-bar, K+, K-, Lambda, Lambda-bar, Cascade,Cascade-bar and (Omega + Omega-bar) are studied for the whole centrality classes at all the three RHIC energies. The experimental data of the transverse momentum spectra and the rapidity distributions are well reproduced. This is done by using a statistical thermal freeze-out model which incorporates the rapidity (collision) axis as well as transverse direction boosts developed within an expanding hot and dense hadronic fluid (fireball) till the final freeze-out. We determine the thermo-chemical freeze-out conditions particularly in terms of temperature, baryon chemical potential and collective flow effect parameters for different particle species. The parameters indicate occurrence of freeze-out of the singly and doubly strange hyperon species at somewhat earlier times during the evolution of the fireball. Dependence of the freeze-out parameters on the degree of centrality is also described and it is found that the kinetic temperature increases and collective flow effect decreases with decreasing centrality at all energies studied. The nuclear transparency effect is also studied and it is clear from our model that the nuclear matter becomes more transparent at the highest RHIC energy compared to lower RHIC energies. The contribution of heavier hadronic resonance decay is taken into account.