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Spectra and radial flow at RHIC with Tsallis statistics in a Blast-Wave description

arXiv:0812.1609 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.79.051901

Abstract

We have implemented the Tsallis statistics in a Blast-Wave model and applied it to mid-rapidity transverse-momentum spectra of identified particles measured at RHIC. This new Tsallis Blast-Wave function fits the RHIC data very well for 3 GeV/. We observed that the collective flow velocity starts from zero in p+p and peripheral Au+Au collisions growing to 0.470 0.009() in central Au+Au collisions. The parameter, which characterizes the degree of non-equilibrium in a system, changes from in p+p to in central Au+Au collisions, indicating an evolution from a highly non-equilibrated system in p+p collisions toward an almost thermalized system in central Au+Au collisions. The temperature and collective velocity are well described by a quadratic dependence on . Two sets of parameters in our Tsallis Blast-Wave model are required to describe the meson and baryon groups separately in p+p collisions while one set of parameters appears to fit all spectra in central Au+Au collisions.

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