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Beam energy dependence of (anti-)deuteron production in Au + Au collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

  • STAR Collaboration
  • Creighton University
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Ohio State University
  • University of Kentucky
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Panjab University
  • Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre India
  • Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
  • Texas A&M University
  • University of Tsukuba
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Tsinghua University
  • Kent State University
  • National Institute of Science Education and Research
  • University of California at Riverside
  • Stony Brook University
  • University of Houston
  • University of Jammu
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Shandong University
  • Rice University
  • Yale University
  • University of California at Davis
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • National Cheng Kung University
  • Fudan University
  • University of Science and Technology of China

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Abstract

We report the energy dependence of mid-rapidity (anti-)deuteron production in Au+Au collisions at sNN=7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4, and 200 GeV, measured by the STAR experiment at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The yield of deuterons is found to be well described by the thermal model. The collision energy, centrality, and transverse momentum dependence of the coalescence parameter B2 are discussed. We find that the values of B2 for antideuterons are systematically lower than those for deuterons, indicating that the correlation volume of antibaryons is larger than that of baryons at sNN from 19.6 to 39 GeV. In addition, values of B2 are found to vary with collision energy and show a broad minimum around sNN=20-40 GeV, which might imply a change of the equation of state of the medium in these collisions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number064905
JournalPhysical Review C
Volume99
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 21 2019

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