Net-proton-number kurtosis and skewness in nuclear collisions: Influence of deuteron formation

作者:Feckova Zuzana*; Steinheimer Jan; Tomasik Boris; Bleicher Marcus
来源:Physical Review C, 2015, 92(6): 064908.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevC.92.064908

摘要

We explore the influence of deuteron formation in the late stage of nucleus-nucleus reactions on the fluctuations observed in the final net-proton yields around midrapidity. At each investigated energy, the produced (anti) proton yield at chemical freeze-out is assumed to fluctuate according to a Poisson distribution and in each event the probability for deuteron formation by coalescence is proportional to (dN(proton)/ dy)(2). The protons that are then clustered in deuterons are usually not included in the experimental measurement of the net-proton fluctuations, therefore, we subtract these clustered protons from the final state proton number for the calculation of the net-proton fluctuations (the same is done in the antiproton sector). Due to the nonlinear deuteron formation probability the resulting distribution is not a Skellam distribution, but shows the interesting feature of a decrease in the kurtosis kappa sigma(2) and a local maximum in the skewness S sigma observables as the collision energy decreases.

  • 出版日期2015-12-14