las vegas - hylander test

CAN FREEZER TRACK CRAZY CONDITIONS?


For both data sets tried so far (E802 and NA44), a rather low temperature was found, and it conflicts (we think) withg the temperature derived from the mT slopes. We did not know if the model contained some bias, and how well it would reproduce known conditions.

To test the model, Bernd ran his Hylander model, with parameters set to produce freezeout conditions corresponding to no flow and a high temperature. The resultant particle distributions were fed into Freezer, to see if it would reproduce these crazy conditions. Here is the result:

name description expanding source model result ``true'' value in HYLANDER
T nuclear temperature 167.6 +- 1.7 MeV 160 MeV
v_t transverse freezeout velocity 0.00 +- .06 c 0.01 c
R_t transverse radius of source at beginning of freezeout 7.49 +- .14 fm 6.5 fm
tau_f longitudinal freezeout proper time 2.7 +- .2 fm/c 1.4 fm/c
y_cm the rapidity of the source's center relative to CM 0.000 +- 0.004 0.0
lambda_pi fraction of pions produced incoherently 1.045 +- 0.022 1.0
mu_b/T ratio of baryon chemical potential to temperature 1.19 +- 0.05 1.52
eta_0 longitudinal spacetime rapidity of the right-hand end of the source in its own frame 2.156 +- .013 1.47
alpha_t transverse freezeout coefficient related to the proper time width Delta-tau of freezeout -1.00 +- .07 ?

As you can see, Freezer reoproduced the no-flow condition and the high temperature, sure a confidence-builing performance.

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