Analysis of kinetic freeze-out temperature and transverse flow velocity in nucleus–nucleus and proton–proton collisions at same center-of-mass energy

Abstract

Transverse momentum spectra of different types of identified charged particles in central Gold–Gold (Au–Au) collisions and inelastic (INEL) or nonsingle diffractive (NSD) proton–proton (pp) collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), as well as in central and peripheral Lead–Lead (Pb–Pb) collisions, and INEL or NSD pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are analyzed by the blast-wave model with Tsallis statistics. The model results are approximately in agreement with the experimental data measured by STAR, PHENIX and ALICE Collaborations in special transverse momentum ranges. Kinetic freeze-out (KFO) temperature and transverse flow velocity are extracted from the transverse momentum spectra of the particles. It is shown that KFO temperature of the emission source depends on mass of the particles, which reveals the mass-dependent KFO scenario in collisions at RHIC and LHC. Furthermore, the KFO temperature and transverse flow velocity in central nucleus–nucleus (AA) collisions are larger than in peripheral collisions, and both of them are slightly larger in peripheral nucleus–nucleus collisions or almost equivalent to that in proton–proton collisions at the same center-of-mass energy which shows their similar thermodynamic nature.