PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 364 - European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2019) - Heavy Ion Physics
Rapidity distributions of pions in p+p and Pb+Pb collisions at CERN SPS energies
A. Marcinek*, A. Rybicki, A. Szczurek, M. Kiełbowicz, V. Ozvenchuk, Ł. Rozpłochowski, I.A. Sputowska, N. Davis and S. Bhosale
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Pre-published on: September 28, 2020
Published on: November 12, 2020
Abstract
The centrality and energy dependence of rapidity distributions of pions in Pb + Pb reactions can be understood by imposing local energy-momentum conservation in the longitudinal „fire streaks” of excited matter. With no tuning nor adjustment to the experimental data, the rapidity distribution of pions produced by the fire streak which we obtained from Pb + Pb collisions reproduces the shape of the experimental pion rapidity distribution in p + p interactions, measured by the NA49 Collaboration at the same energy per nucleon. The observed difference in the absolute normalization of this distribution can be explained by the difference in the overall energy balance, induced by baryon stopping and strangeness enhancement phenomena occurring in heavy ion collisions. We estimate the latter effects using a collection of CERN SPS experimental data on π ± , K ± , net p, and n production in p + p and Pb + Pb reactions. We discuss the implications of the above findings for the understanding of particle production phenomena in both hadron-hadron and nucleus-nucleus collisions. Our study, originally applied at a collision energy of √sNN = 17.3 GeV, is at present extended to the energy regime 7.7 ≤ √sNN ≤ 17.3 GeV.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.364.0275
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