摘要
In this study,the chemical freeze-out of hadrons,including light-and strange-flavor particles and light nuclei,produced in Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider(RHIC),was investigated.Using the Thermal-FIST thermodynamic statistical model,we analyzed various particle sets:those inclusive of light nuclei,those exclusive to light nuclei,and those solely comprising light nuclei.We determined the chemical freeze-out parameters at√^(S)NN=7.7–200 Ge V and four different centralities.A significant finding was the decrease in the chemical freeze-out temperature T_(ch)with light-nuclei inclusion,with an even more pronounced reduction when considering light-nuclei yields exclusively.This suggests that light-nuclei formation occurs at a later stage in the system’s evolution at RHIC energies.We present parameterized formulas that describe the energy dependence of T_(ch)and the baryon chemical potentialμ_(B) for three distinct particle sets in central Au+Au collisions at RHIC energies.Our results reveal at least three distinct T_(ch)at RHIC energies correspond to different freeze-out hypersurfaces:a light-flavor freeze-out temperature of T_L=150.2±6 Me V,a strange-flavor freeze-out temperature T_s=165.1±2.7 Me V,and a light-nuclei freeze-out temperature T_(ln)=141.7±1.4 Me V.Notably,at the Large Hadron Collider(LHC)Pb+Pb 2.76Te V,the expected lower freeze-out temperature for light nuclei was not observed;instead,the T_(ch)for light nuclei was found to be approximately 10 Me V higher than that for light-flavor hadrons.
基金
supported by the Scientific Research Foundation of Hubei University of Education for Talent Introduction(Nos.ESRC20230002 and ESRC20230007)
the Research Project of Hubei Provincial Department of Education(Nos.D20233003 and B2023191)。
