Transverse energy and charged particle production in heavy-ion collisions: From RHIC to LHC

Abstract

We study the charged particle and transverse energy production mechanism from AGS, SPS, RHIC to LHC energies in the framework of nucleon and quark participants. At RHIC and LHC energies, the number of nucleons-normalized charged particle and transverse energy density in pseudorapidity, which shows a monotonic rise with centrality, turns out to be an almost centrality independent scaling behaviour when normalized to the number of participant quarks. A universal function which is a combination of logarithmic and power-law, describes well the charged particle and transverse energy production both at nucleon and quark participant level for the whole range of collision energies. Energy dependent production mechanisms are discussed both for nucleonic and partonic level. Predictions are made for the pseudorapidity densities of transverse energy, charged particle multiplicity and their ratio (the barometric observable, $\frac{d{E}_{\mathrm{T}}/d\eta }{d{N}_{\mathrm{ch}}/d\eta }\equiv \frac{E_{\mathrm{T}}}{N_{\mathrm{ch}}}$) at mid-rapidity for Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.5$ TeV. A comparison with models based on gluon saturation and statistical hadron gas is made for the energy dependence of $\frac{E_{\mathrm{T}}}{N_{\mathrm{ch}}}$.

19 pages, 7 figures

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