Validity of Chemical Equilibrium Approach in the Study of Kinetic Freeze-out in p-Pb Collisions at LHC

TL;DR

This study uses a thermal freeze-out model to analyze particle spectra in p-Pb collisions at LHC, comparing results with heavy-ion collisions to assess the model's validity in describing kinetic freeze-out.

Contribution

It evaluates the applicability of the chemical equilibrium approach in modeling kinetic freeze-out in p-Pb collisions at LHC energies.

Findings

Good agreement between model and experimental data

Extraction of freeze-out parameters for different centralities

Comparison showing similarities and differences with heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

Transverse momentum spectra of identified pions, Kaons , protons and Lambdas produced at mid-rapidity (0 < ycm < 0.5) in p-Pb collisions at root(sNN) = 5.02 TeV is studied for different collision centralities by using a Unified Statistical Thermal Freeze-out Model (USTFM). A fairly good agreement is seen between the calculated results and the experimental data points taken from the ALICE experiment. Kinetic freeze-out conditions are extracted from the fits of the transverse momentum spectra of these hadrons for each centrality class. A comparison of the obtained freeze-out parameters with those of heavy-ion collisions (Pb + Pb) is made and discussed.