Measurements of Chemical Potentials in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV

(ALICE Collaboration)

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.092301

Measurements of Chemical Potentials in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV

(ALICE Collaboration)

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This Letter presents the most precise measurement to date of the matter-antimatter imbalance at midrapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair sNN=5.02 TeV. Using the Statistical Hadronization framework, it is possible to obtain the value of the electric charge and baryon chemical potentials, μQ=-0.18±0.90 MeV and μB=0.71±0.45 MeV, with unprecedented precision. A centrality-differential study of the antiparticle-to-particle yield ratios of charged pions, protons, ω baryons, and light (hyper)nuclei is performed. These results indicate that the system created in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC is on average baryon-free and electrically neutral at midrapidity.

Original language	English
Article number	092301
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	133
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.092301
State	Published - 2024.08.30

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Measurements of Chemical Potentials in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV

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