Collision-energy dependence of deuteron cumulants and proton-deuteron correlations in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

The STAR collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2024.138560

Collision-energy dependence of deuteron cumulants and proton-deuteron correlations in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

The STAR collaboration

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Abstract

We report the first measurements of cumulants, up to 4^th order, of deuteron number distributions and proton-deuteron correlations in Au+Au collisions recorded by the STAR experiment in phase-I of Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Deuteron cumulants, their ratios, and proton-deuteron mixed cumulants are presented for different collision centralities covering a range of center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair s_NN=7.7 to 200 GeV. It is found that the cumulant ratios at lower collision energies favor a canonical ensemble over a grand canonical ensemble in thermal models. An anti-correlation between proton and deuteron multiplicity is observed across all collision energies and centralities, consistent with the expectation from global baryon number conservation. The UrQMD model coupled with a phase-space coalescence mechanism qualitatively reproduces the collision-energy dependence of cumulant ratios and proton-deuteron correlations.

Original language	English
Article number	138560
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	855
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2024.138560
State	Published - Aug 2024

Keywords

Coalescence
Critical point
Deuteron production
Heavy-ion collisions
Higher moments
Thermal model

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Collision-energy dependence of deuteron cumulants and proton-deuteron correlations in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

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