https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612003005
Particle production beyond the thermal model
Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 16, D-69120 Heidelberg Germany, EU
a e-mail: g.wolschin@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de
Published online: 4 July 2016
The sources of particle production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are investigated from RHIC to LHC energies. Whereas charged-hadron production in the fragmentation sources follows a ln(sNN/s0) law, particle production in the mid-rapidity low-x gluon-gluon source exhibits a much stronger dependence ∝ ln3(sNN/s0), and becomes dominant between RHIC and LHC energies. The equilibration of the three sources is investigated in a relativistic diffusion model (RDM). It agrees with the thermal model only for t → ∞.
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