Centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of the charged-particle multiplicity density in Xe-Xe collisions at root s(NN)=5.44 TeV

0503668 - ÚJF 2020 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Acharya, S. - Acosta, F. T. - Adamová, Dagmar - Bielčík, J. - Bielčíková, Jana - Broz, M. - Contreras, J. G. - Horák, D. - Křížek, Filip - Kučera, Vít - Kushpil, Svetlana - Lavička, R. - Mareš, Jiří A. - Petráček, V. - Šumbera, Michal - Závada, Petr … Total 1009 authors
Centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of the charged-particle multiplicity density in Xe-Xe collisions at root s(NN)=5.44 TeV.
Physics Letters. B. Roč. 790, č. 3 (2019), s. 35-48. ISSN 0370-2693. E-ISSN 1873-2445
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LTT17018
Research Infrastructure: CERN-CZ - 90058
Institutional support: RVO:68378271 ; RVO:61389005
Keywords : ALICE collaboration * heavy ion collisions
OECD category: Nuclear physics; Particles and field physics (FZU-D)
Impact factor: 4.384, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.12.048

In this Letter, the ALICE Collaboration presents the first measurements of the charged-particle multiplicity density, dN(ch)/d eta, and total charged-particle multiplicity, N-ch(tot), in Xe-Xe collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon-nucleon pair of root s(NN) = 5.44 TeV. The measurements are performed as a function of collision centrality over a wide pseudorapidity range of -3.5 < eta < 5. The values of dN(ch)/d eta at mid-rapidity and N-ch(tot) for central collisions, normalised to the number of nucleons participating in the collision (N-part) as a function of root s(NN) follow the trends established in previous heavy-ion measurements. The same quantities are also found to increase as a function of N-part, and up to the 5% most central collisions the trends are the same as the ones observed in Pb-Pb at a similar energy. For more central collisions, the Xe-Xe scaled multiplicities exceed those in Pb-Pb for a similar N-part. The results are compared to phenomenological models and theoretical calculations based on different mechanisms for particle production in nuclear collisions. All considered models describe the data reasonably well within 15%.
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