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Title: Flavour and energy dependence of chemical freeze-out temperatures in relativistic heavy ion collisions from RHIC-BES to LHC energies

Journal Article · · Physics Letters B

We present calculations of the chemical freeze-out temperature (Tch) based on particle yields from STAR and ALICE measured at collision energies ranging from $$\sqrt{s_{NN}}$$ = 11.5 GeV to 5.02 TeV. Employing the Grand Canonical Ensemble approach using the Thermal-FIST Hadron Resonance Gas model package, we show evidence for a flavour-dependent chemical freeze-out in the crossover region of the QCD phase diagram. At a vanishing baryochemical potential, we calculate light and strange flavour freeze-out temperatures TL = 150.2 ± 2.6 MeV and TS = 165.1 ± 2.7 MeV, respectively.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Houston, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
Grant/Contract Number:
DEFG02-07ER4152; FG02-07ER41521
OSTI ID:
1761542
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1849736
Journal Information:
Physics Letters B, Journal Name: Physics Letters B; ISSN 0370-2693
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
Netherlands
Language:
English

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