Produced charged hadrons in central [formula omitted] collisions at LHC energies in the RDM

Abstract

The energy dependence of charged-hadron production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is investigated in a nonequilibrium-statistical relativistic diffusion model (RDM) with three sources. Theoretical pseudorapidity distributions are compared with Au+Au data at RHIC energies of sNN=0.13 and 0.2 TeV, and computed for Pb+Pb central collisions at LHC energies of 2.76 and 5.52 TeV. The central, nearly equilibrated source arising from gluon–gluon collisions becomes the major origin of particle production at LHC energies. The midrapidity dip is determined by the interplay of the three sources.