Kinetic freeze-out in central Au+Au collisions is a continuous process spanning broad ranges of temperature and baryon chemical potential, with averages nearly flat in transverse momentum and rapidity.
Systematics of Kinetic Freeze-out Properties in High Energy Collisions from STAR
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The main aim of the RHIC Beam Energy Scan (BES) program is to explore the QCD phase diagram which includes search for a possible QCD critical point and the phase boundary between QGP and hadronic phase. We report the collision energy and centrality dependence of kinetic freeze-out properties from the measured mid-rapidity ($|y|<0.1)$ light hadrons (pions, kaons, protons and their anti-particles) for Au+Au collisions at the center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}} =$ 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV. The STAR detector, with a large uniform acceptance and excellent particle identification is used in the data collection and analysis. The kinetic freeze-out temperature $T_{\rm{kin}}$ and average collective velocity $\langle \beta \rangle$ parameters are extracted from blast-wave fits to the identified hadron spectra and systematically compared with the results from other collision energies including those at AGS, SPS and LHC. It is found that all results fall into an anti-correlation band in the 2-dimension ($T_{\rm{kin}}$, $\langle \beta \rangle$) distribution: the largest value of collective velocity and lowest temperature is reached in the most central collisions at the highest collision energy. The energy dependence of these freeze-out parameters are discussed.
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Temperatures and chemical potentials at kinetic freeze-out in relativistic heavy ion collisions from coarse grained transport simulations
Kinetic freeze-out in central Au+Au collisions is a continuous process spanning broad ranges of temperature and baryon chemical potential, with averages nearly flat in transverse momentum and rapidity.