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Kinetic freeze-out temperature and flow velocity extracted from transverse momentum spectra of final-state light flavor particles produced in collisions at RHIC and LHC

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The transverse momentum spectra of final-state light flavor particles produced in proton-proton (p -p , copper-copper (Cu-Cu), gold-gold (Au-Au), lead-lead (Pb-Pb), and proton-lead (p -Pb) collisions for different centralities at relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC) and large hadron collider (LHC) energies are studied in the framework of a multisource thermal model. The experimental data measured by the STAR, CMS, and ALICE Collaborations are consistent with the results calculated by the multi-component Erlang distribution and Tsallis Statistics. The effective temperature and real temperature (kinetic freeze-out temperature) of the interacting system at the stage of kinetic freeze-out, the mean transverse flow velocity and mean flow velocity of particles, and the relationships between them are extracted. The dependences of effective temperature and mean (transverse) momentum on rest mass, moving mass, centrality, and center-of-mass energy, and the dependences of kinetic freeze-out temperature and mean (transverse) flow velocity on centrality, center-of-mass energy, and system size are obtained.

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  1. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, Shanxi, China

    Hua-Rong Wei & Fu-Hu Liu

  2. Departments of Chemistry & Physics, Stony Brook University, 11794, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Roy A. Lacey

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Wei, HR., Liu, FH. & Lacey, R.A. Kinetic freeze-out temperature and flow velocity extracted from transverse momentum spectra of final-state light flavor particles produced in collisions at RHIC and LHC. Eur. Phys. J. A 52, 102 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16102-6

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