https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2013-13045-9
Regular Article
Wounded quarks and multiplicity at relativistic ion colliders
Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, 221005, Varanasi, India
* e-mail: ashwini.physics@gmail.com
Received:
4
October
2012
Revised:
10
February
2013
Accepted:
8
April
2013
Published online:
25
April
2013
In this paper, we propose a parameterization which is based on a phenomenological model involving the wounded quarks interactions for explaining the average charged particle multiplicity 〈n ch 〉, the central pseudo-rapidity density 〈(dn/dη)η=0〉 and the complete rapidity dependence of dn/dη in relativistic heavy-ion collider experiments. The model also interrelates nucleus-nucleus (A-A collisions with p-A and p-p interactions. Our parameterization rests on simple assumptions regarding the mean number of participating quarks and their average number of collisions. The results for 〈n ch 〉 and their variations with the mass number of colliding nuclei, center-of-mass energy (√s NN ) and collision centrality are well supported by the available experimental data. Finally we give the predictions from our model for A-A collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiments. Our results indicate the existence of a possible universal production mechanism for p-p, p -A and A-A collisions.
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