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Magda Abdel Wahab

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Almost-Entirely Empirical Estimation for Chemical Potential

Based on statistical thermal approaches, the transverse momentum distribution of the well-identified produced particles, $π^+$, $π^-$, $K^+$, $K^-$, $p$, $\bar{p}$, is studied. From the partition function of grand-canonical ensemble, we propose a generic expression for the dependence of the full chemical potential $μ$ on rapidity $y$. Then, by fitting this expression with the experimental results of most central $p_{\perp}$ and $d^2 N/2 πp_{\bot} dp_{\bot} dy$, at $7.7$, $11.5$, $19.6$, $27$, $39$, $130$, $200~$GeV, we introduce a generic expression for the rapidity dependence of $μ$, at different energies and particle types, $μ=a+b y^2$. The resulting energy dependence reads $\sqrt{s_{\mathtt{NN}}}=c[(μ-a)/b]^{d/2}$. As a validation check, the proposed approach reproduces, excellently, the rapidity spectra measured at different energies.

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Strangeness chemical potential from the baryons relative to the kaons particle ratios

From a systematic analysis of the energy-dependence of four antibaryon-to-baryon ratios relative to the antikaon-to-kaon ratio, we propose an alternative approach determining the strange-quark chemical potential ($μ_{\mathrm{s}}$). It is found that $μ_{\mathrm{s}}$ generically genuinely equals one-fifth the baryon chemical potential ($μ_{\mathrm{b}}$). An additional quantity depending on $μ_{\mathrm{b}}$ and the freezeout temperature ($T$) should be added in order to assure averaged strangeness conversation. This quantity gives a genuine estimation for the possible strangeness enhancement with the increase in the collision energy. At the chemical freezeout conditioned to constant entropy density normalized to temperature cubed, various particle ratios calculated at $T$ and $μ_{\mathrm{b}}$ and the resultant $μ_{\mathrm{s}}$ excellently agree with the statistical-thermal calculations.

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Phenomenology of strangeness production at high energies

The strange-quark occupation factor ($γ_s$) is determined from the statistical fit of the multiplicity ratio $\mathrm{K}^+/π^+$ in a wide range of nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energies ($\sqrt{s_{NN}}$). From this single-strange-quark-subsystem, $γ_s(\sqrt{s_{NN}})$ was parametrized as a damped trigonometric functionality and successfully implemented to the hadron resonance gas model, at chemical semi-equilibrium. Various particle ratios including $\mathrm{K}^-/π^-$, $\mathrmΛ/π^-$, and $\mathrm{\barΛ}/π^-$ are well reproduced. The phenomenology of $γ_s(\sqrt{s_{NN}})$ suggests that, the hadrons ($γ_s$ raises) at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} \simeq 7~$GeV seems to undergo a phase transition to a mixed phase ($γ_s$ declines), which is then derived into partons ($γ_s$ remains unchanged with increasing $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$), at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} \simeq 20~$GeV.

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