Research Article
Transverse Momentum and Pseudorapidity Dependence of
Particle Production in Xe–Xe Collision at
TeV
Zhang-Li Guo ,
1,2
Bao-Chun Li ,
1,2
and Hong-Wei Dong
1,2
1
College of Physics and Electronics Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices,
Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
2
Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
Correspondence should be addressed to Bao-Chun Li; libc2010@163.com
Received 9 June 2019; Revised 6 September 2019; Accepted 1 October 2019; Published 1 February 2020
Guest Editor: Sakina Fakhraddin
Copyright © 2020 Zhang-Li Guo et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
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publication of this article was funded by SCOAP
3
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rough the collision-system configuration, the Tsallis statistics is combined with a multisource thermal model. e improved model
is used to investigate the transverse momentum and pseudorapidity of particles produced in Xe–Xe collisions at
TeV.
We discuss detailedly the thermodynamic properties, which are taken from the transverse momentum
distributions of
,
, and
for different centralities. e pseudorapidity
spectra of charged particles for different centralities are described consistently in
the model. And, the model result can estimate intuitively the longitudinal configuration of the collision system.
1. Introduction
e important goal of the ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
is to find and study the Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP), which
is a new matter state of strongly interacting quarks and gluons
at high temperature and density [1–3]. From 2010 to 2019, the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has mainly carried out p-p,
p-Pb, and Pb–Pb collision experiments at various collision
energies, which can provide different types of collision-system
configurations. In 2017, the LHC performed a different kind
of hadron collision at high energy, i.e. the first Xe
129
ion colli-
sions at
TeV [4–7]. Since the nucleons of the Xe
129
nucleus is fewer than that of Pb
208
nucleus, the investigation
of Xe-ion collisions can roughly bridge or connect the gap
between
and Pb ion collisions. As a good intermediate-size
system, the Xe–Xe colliding system brings a wonderful oppor
-
tunity to discuss the colliding-system size dependence of mul-
tiparticle production in high-energy nuclear collisions [8, 9].
e nucleus collisions at high energies offer numerous exper-
imental data about charged particle production, such as pions,
kaons, and protons. e particle production in the collision
contains the interaction effects between hard and so QCD
processes. e feature discussion of the particle distribution
can be used to infer the evolution and dynamics of different
collision systems at different center of mass energies.
With respect to the final-state observables in these colli-
sions, the particle transverse momentum and pseudorapidity
multiplicity are two key measurements to understand the par-
ticle-production process and the matter evolution under the
extreme conditions. e transverse momentum spectra are
very important because they can provide essential information
about QGP created in the collisions. e charged-particle
pseudorapidity multiplicity is related to the early geometry of
the collision system and is of great interest to investigate the
properties of the collision-system evolution. Recently, the
ALICE Collaboration measured charged-particle transverse
momentum spectra and multiplicity density in Xe–Xe colli-
sions at
TeV at the LHC [5, 6]. In this work, the
transverse momentum spectra are analyzed in an improved
multisource thermal model, where the Tsallis statistics [10–13]
is imported. Combined with the collision picture, we also dis-
cuss the charged-particle pseudorapidity density for different
collision centralities. e investigation of the particle produc-
tion in different collision systems can help us understand the
matter evolution in the different collisions.
2. The Particle Spectra in the Improved
Multisource Thermal Model
In high-energy nucleon or nuclei collisions, the thermody-
namic information of the system evolution is very rich. ese
identified particles produced in the collisions may be regarded
as a multiparticle system. e identified particles emit from
Hindawi
Advances in High Energy Physics
Volume 2020, Article ID 9734320, 5 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/9734320