Published April 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

φ and Ω production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions in a dynamical quark coalescence model

  • 1. Center of Theoretical Nuclear Physics, National Laboratory of Heavy Ion Accelerator, Lanzhou 730000 (China)
  • 2. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240 (China)
  • 3. Cyclotron Institute and Physics Department, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3366 (United States)

Description

Based on the phase-space information obtained from a multiphase transport model within the string-melting scenario for strange and antistrange quarks, we study the yields and transverse-momentum spectra of φ mesons and Ω (Ω-+Ω+) baryons and their anisotropic flows in Au + Au collisions at RHIC using a dynamical quark coalescence model that includes the effect from quark phase-space distributions inside hadrons. With current quark masses and fixing the φ and Ω radii from fitting measured yields, we first study the ratio of the yield of Ω baryons to that of φ mesons as well as their elliptic and fourth-order flows as functions of their transverse momentum. How the elliptic and fourth-order flows of φ mesons and Ω baryons are related to those of strange and antistrange quarks is then examined. The dependence of these results on φ and Ω radii as well as on the strange quark mass is also studied

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
73
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 044903-044903.13
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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(c) 2006 The American Physical Society