[Submitted on 15 Aug 2018] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Multiplicity dependence of light nuclei production at LHC energies in the canonical statistical model
Volodymyr Vovchenko🇩🇪 · Benjamin Donigus🇩🇪 · Horst Stoecker🇩🇪
The statistical model with exact conservation of baryon number, electric charge, and strangeness - the Canonical Statistical Model (CSM) - is used to analyze the dependence of yields of light nuclei at midrapidity on charged pion multiplicity at the LHC. The CSM calculations are performed assuming baryon-symmetric matter, using the recently developed Thermal-FIST package. The light nuclei-to-proton yield ratios show a monotonic increase with charged pion multiplicity, with a saturation at the corresponding grand-canonical values in the high-multiplicity limit, in good qualitative agreement with the experimental data measured by the ALICE collaboration in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at different centralities and energies. Comparison with experimental data at low multiplicities shows that exact conservation of charges across more than one unit of rapidity and/or a chemical freeze-out temperature which decreases with the charged pion multiplicity improves agreement with the data.
- Comments:
- 5 pages, 1 figure
- Subjects:
- High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
- arXiv:
- 1808.05245 [pdf]