Extracting Kinetic Freeze-out Properties in High Energy Collisions Using a Multi-source Thermal Model

Jia-Yu Chen, Mai-Ying Duan, Fu-Hu Liu +1

We study the transverse momentum ($p_T$) spectra of neutral pions and identified charged hadrons produced in proton--proton ($pp$), deuteron--gold ($d$--Au), and gold--gold (Au--Au…