Improved Monte Carlo Glauber predictions at present and future nuclear colliders

Loizides, Constantin; Kamin, Jason; d'Enterria, David

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.97.054910

Title: Improved Monte Carlo Glauber predictions at present and future nuclear colliders

Journal Article · Wed May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Physical Review C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.97.054910· OSTI ID:1438506

Loizides, Constantin; Kamin, Jason; d'Enterria, David

We present the results of an improved Monte Carlo Glauber (MCG) model of relevance for collisions involving nuclei at center-of-mass energies of the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ( $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 0.2$ TeV), CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ( $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 - 8.8 TeV$ ), and proposed future hadron colliders ( $\sqrt{s_{NN}} \approx 10 - 63$ TeV). The inelastic $p p$ cross sections as a function of $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ are obtained from a precise data-driven parametrization that exploits the many available measurements at LHC collision energies. We describe the nuclear density of a lead nucleus with two separated two-parameter Fermi distributions for protons and neutrons to account for their different densities close to the nuclear periphery. Furthermore, we model the nucleon degrees of freedom inside the nucleus through a lattice with a minimum nodal separation, combined with a “recentering and reweighting” procedure, that overcomes some limitations of previous MCG approaches. The nuclear overlap function, number of participant nucleons and binary nucleon-nucleon collisions, participant eccentricity and triangularity, overlap area, and average path length are presented in intervals of percentile centrality for lead-lead (PbPb) and proton-lead ( $p Pb$ ) collisions at all collision energies. We demonstrate for collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02 TeV$ that the central values of the Glauber quantities change by up to 7% in a few bins of reaction centrality, due to the improvements implemented, though typically they remain within the previously assigned systematic uncertainties, while their new associated uncertainties are generally smaller (mostly below 5%) at all centralities than for earlier calculations. Tables for all quantities versus centrality at present and foreseen collision energies involving Pb nuclei, as well as for collisions of XeXe at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.44 TeV$ , and AuAu and CuCu at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 0.2 TeV$ , are provided. The source code for the improved Monte Carlo Glauber model is made publicly available.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-94ER40865; AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1438506

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1665948; OSTI ID: 1666139

Report Number(s):: DOE-UIC-ER40865-X15; PRVCAN; 054910

Journal Information:: Physical Review C, Journal Name: Physical Review C Vol. 97 Journal Issue: 5; ISSN 2469-9985

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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