Beam Energy Dependence of Triton Production and Yield Ratio (N_{t}×N_{p}/N_{d}^{2}) in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC

We report the triton (t) production in midrapidity (|y|<0.5) Au+Au collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=7.7-200  GeV measured by the STAR experiment from the first phase of the beam energy scan at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The nuclear compound yield ratio (N_{t}×N_{p}/N_{d}^{2}), which is predicted to be sensitive to the fluctuation of local neutron density, is observed to decrease monotonically with increasing charged-particle multiplicity (dN_{ch}/dη) and follows a scaling behavior. The dN_{ch}/dη dependence of the yield ratio is compared to calculations from coalescence and thermal models. Enhancements in the yield ratios relative to the coalescence baseline are observed in the 0%-10% most central collisions at 19.6 and 27 GeV, with a significance of 2.3σ and 3.4σ, respectively, giving a combined significance of 4.1σ. The enhancements are not observed in peripheral collisions or model calculations without critical fluctuation, and decreases with a smaller p_{T} acceptance. The physics implications of these results on the QCD phase structure and the production mechanism of light nuclei in heavy-ion collisions are discussed.

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:130

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Physical review letters - 130(2023), 20 vom: 19. Mai, Seite 202301

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Englisch

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Abdulhamid, M I [VerfasserIn]
Aboona, B E [VerfasserIn]
Adam, J [VerfasserIn]
Adams, J R [VerfasserIn]
Agakishiev, G [VerfasserIn]
Aggarwal, I [VerfasserIn]
Aggarwal, M M [VerfasserIn]
Ahammed, Z [VerfasserIn]
Aitbaev, A [VerfasserIn]
Alekseev, I [VerfasserIn]
Anderson, D M [VerfasserIn]
Aparin, A [VerfasserIn]
Aslam, S [VerfasserIn]
Atchison, J [VerfasserIn]
Averichev, G S [VerfasserIn]
Bairathi, V [VerfasserIn]
Baker, W [VerfasserIn]
Ball Cap, J G [VerfasserIn]
Barish, K [VerfasserIn]
Bhagat, P [VerfasserIn]
Bhasin, A [VerfasserIn]
Bhatta, S [VerfasserIn]
Bordyuzhin, I G [VerfasserIn]
Brandenburg, J D [VerfasserIn]
Brandin, A V [VerfasserIn]
Cai, X Z [VerfasserIn]
Caines, H [VerfasserIn]
Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, M [VerfasserIn]
Cebra, D [VerfasserIn]
Ceska, J [VerfasserIn]
Chakaberia, I [VerfasserIn]
Chan, B K [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Z [VerfasserIn]
Chatterjee, A [VerfasserIn]
Chen, D [VerfasserIn]
Chen, J [VerfasserIn]
Chen, J H [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Z [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, J [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Y [VerfasserIn]
Choudhury, S [VerfasserIn]
Christie, W [VerfasserIn]
Chu, X [VerfasserIn]
Crawford, H J [VerfasserIn]
Dale-Gau, G [VerfasserIn]
Das, A [VerfasserIn]
Daugherity, M [VerfasserIn]
Dedovich, T G [VerfasserIn]
Deppner, I M [VerfasserIn]
Derevschikov, A A [VerfasserIn]
Dhamija, A [VerfasserIn]
Di Carlo, L [VerfasserIn]
Didenko, L [VerfasserIn]
Dixit, P [VerfasserIn]
Dong, X [VerfasserIn]
Drachenberg, J L [VerfasserIn]
Duckworth, E [VerfasserIn]
Dunlop, J C [VerfasserIn]
Engelage, J [VerfasserIn]
Eppley, G [VerfasserIn]
Esumi, S [VerfasserIn]
Evdokimov, O [VerfasserIn]
Ewigleben, A [VerfasserIn]
Eyser, O [VerfasserIn]
Fatemi, R [VerfasserIn]
Fazio, S [VerfasserIn]
Feng, C J [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Y [VerfasserIn]
Finch, E [VerfasserIn]
Fisyak, Y [VerfasserIn]
Flor, F A [VerfasserIn]
Fu, C [VerfasserIn]
Geurts, F [VerfasserIn]
Ghimire, N [VerfasserIn]
Gibson, A [VerfasserIn]
Gopal, K [VerfasserIn]
Gou, X [VerfasserIn]
Grosnick, D [VerfasserIn]
Gupta, A [VerfasserIn]
Hamed, A [VerfasserIn]
Han, Y [VerfasserIn]
Harasty, M D [VerfasserIn]
Harris, J W [VerfasserIn]
Harrison-Smith, H [VerfasserIn]
He, W [VerfasserIn]
He, X H [VerfasserIn]
He, Y [VerfasserIn]
Hu, C [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Q [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Y [VerfasserIn]
Huang, H [VerfasserIn]
Huang, H Z [VerfasserIn]
Huang, S L [VerfasserIn]
Huang, T [VerfasserIn]
Huang, X [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Y [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Y [VerfasserIn]
Humanic, T J [VerfasserIn]
Isenhower, D [VerfasserIn]
Isshiki, M [VerfasserIn]
STAR Collaboration [VerfasserIn]
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Date Completed 04.06.2023

Date Revised 04.06.2023

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.202301

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