https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817114004
Baryon spectra and antiparticle-to-particle ratios from the improved AMPT model
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Faculty of Physics and Electronic Technology, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China
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Department of Physics, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858, USA
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Key Laboratory of Quarks and Lepton Physics (MOE) and Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
* e-mail: hyuncun@foxmail.com
** e-mail: linz@ecu.edu
Published online: 2 February 2018
The current version of a multi-phase transport (AMPT) model with string melting can reasonably describe the dN/dy yields, pT spectra and anisotropic flows of pions and kaons at low pT in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies, although it failed to reproduce the dN/dy and pT spectra of baryons. In this work, we improve the quark coalescence mechanism in AMPT by removing the forced separate number conservations of mesons, baryons and antibaryons in each event. We find that the improved AMPT model can better describe the yields at midrapidity, the pT spectra and elliptic flow of low-pT baryons in comparison with the experimental data. Antiparticle-to-particle ratios of strange baryons are also significantly improved.
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