Centrality dependence of K*(892)0 and {\phi}(1020) production at LHC

TL;DR

This study investigates how the production and properties of K*(892)0 and {\

Contribution

It applies the Unified Statistical Thermal Freeze-out Model to describe resonance production across different collision centralities at LHC.

Findings

K*(892)0 and {\

the transverse momentum spectra are well reproduced by the model

Kinetic freeze-out temperature increases as collisions become more peripheral

Abstract

We study the centrality dependence of the mid-rapidity (|y|<0.5) yield (dN/dy) and transverse momentum distributions of K*(892)0 and {\phi}(1020) resonances produced in Pb+Pb collisions at root(sNN) = 2.76 TeV. The mid-rapidity density (dN/dy) and the shape of the transverse momentum spectra are well reproduced by our earlier proposed Unified Statistical Thermal Freeze-out Model (USTFM) which incorporates the effects of both longitudinal as well as transverse hydrodynamic flow. The freeze-out properties in terms of kinetic freeze-out temperature and transverse flow velocity parameter are extracted from the model fits to the ALICE data. The extracted kinetic freeze-out temperature is found to increase with decrease in centrality while as the transverse flow velocity parameter shows a mild decrease towards peripheral collisions. Moreover the centrality dependence of the mid-rapidity system size at freeze-out has also been studied in terms of transverse radius parameter.