Beam energy dependence of (anti-)deuteron production in Au + Au collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

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Abstract

We report the energy dependence of mid-rapidity (anti-)deuteron production in Au+Au collisions at sNN=7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4, and 200 GeV, measured by the STAR experiment at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The yield of deuterons is found to be well described by the thermal model. The collision energy, centrality, and transverse momentum dependence of the coalescence parameter B2 are discussed. We find that the values of B2 for antideuterons are systematically lower than those for deuterons, indicating that the correlation volume of antibaryons is larger than that of baryons at sNN from 19.6 to 39 GeV. In addition, values of B2 are found to vary with collision energy and show a broad minimum around sNN=20-40 GeV, which might imply a change of the equation of state of the medium in these collisions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number064905
JournalPhysical Review C
Volume99
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 21 2019
Externally publishedYes

Funding

We thank the RHIC Operations Group and RCF at BNL, the NERSC Center at LBNL, and the Open Science Grid consortium for providing resources and support. This work was supported in part by the Office of Nuclear Physics within the U.S. DOE Office of Science, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Academy of Science, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Academy of Science, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (973 Programme No. 2015CB856900) and the Chinese Ministry of Education, the National Research Foundation of Korea, GA and MSMT of the Czech Republic, Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (FK-123824), New National Excellency Programme of the Hungarian Ministry of Human Capacities (UNKP-18-4), Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India, the National Science Centre of Poland, National Research Foundation, the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, RosAtom of Russia, and the German Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF) and the Helmholtz Association.

FundersFunder number
Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology
Hungarian Ministry of Human CapacitiesUNKP-18-4
RosAtom of Russia
National Science Foundation
Office of Science
Nuclear Physics
National Research Foundation
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science19H05598
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China2015CB856900
Ministarstvo Obrazovanja, Znanosti i Sporta
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Helmholtz Association
Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie
Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs HivatalFK-123824

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