Beam Energy Dependence of Triton Production and Yield Ratio ($\mathrm{N}_t \times \mathrm{N}_p/\mathrm{N}_d^2$) in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC
Creators: name: STAR Collaboration
name: Abdulhamid, M. I.
name: Aboona, B. E.
name: Adam, J.
name: Adams, J. R.
name: Agakishiev, G.
name: Aggarwal, I.
name: Aggarwal, M. M.
name: Ahammed, Z.
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name: Alekseev, I.
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name: Bairathi, V.
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name: Brandenburg, J. D.
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name: Caines, H.
name: Calderón~de~la~Barca~Sánchez, M.
name: Cebra, D.
name: Ceska, J.
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name: Chan, B. K.
name: Chang, Z.
name: Chatterjee, A.
name: Chen, D.
name: Chen, J.
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name: Chen, Z.
name: Cheng, J.
name: Cheng, Y.
name: Choudhury, S.
name: Christie, W.
name: Chu, X.
name: Crawford, H. J.
name: Dale-Gau, G.
name: Das, A.
name: Daugherity, M.
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name: Evdokimov, O.
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name: Fazio, S.
name: Feng, C. J.
name: Feng, Y.
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name: Grosnick, D.
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name: Hamed, A.
name: Han, Y.
name: Harasty, M. D.
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name: Harrison-Smith, H.
name: He, W.
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name: Hu, C.
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name: Huang, T.
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name: Huang, Y.
name: Humanic, T. J.
name: Isenhower, D.
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name: Okorokov, V. A.
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name: Stewart, D. J.
name: Strikhanov, M.
name: Stringfellow, B.
name: Su, Y.
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name: Sun, Y.
name: Surrow, B.
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name: Webb, J. C.
name: Weidenkaff, P. C.
name: Westfall, G. D.
name: Wieman, H.
name: Wilks, G.
name: Wissink, S. W.
name: Wu, J.
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name: Xiao, Z. G.
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name: Yan, G.
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name: Zhang, C.
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name: Zhang, Y.
name: Zhang, Y.
name: Zhang, Z. J.
name: Zhang, Z.
name: Zhang, Z.
name: Zhao, F.
name: Zhao, J.
name: Zhao, M.
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Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the triton ($t$) production in mid-rapidity ($|y| &lt;$ 0.5) Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$= 7.7--200 GeV measured by the STAR experiment from the first phase of the beam energy scan at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The nuclear compound yield ratio ($\mathrm{N}_t \times \mathrm{N}_p/\mathrm{N}_d^2$), which is predicted to be sensitive to the fluctuation of local neutron density, is observed to decrease monotonically with increasing charged-particle multiplicity ($dN_{ch}/dη$) and follows a scaling behavior. The $dN_{ch}/dη$ dependence of the yield ratio is compared to calculations from coalescence and thermal models. Enhancements in the yield ratios relative to the coalescence baseline are observed in the 0\%-10\% most central collisions at 19.6 and 27 GeV, with a significance of 2.3$σ$ and 3.4$σ$, respectively, giving a combined significance of 4.1$σ$. The enhancements are not observed in peripheral collisions or model calculations without critical fluctuation, and decreases with a smaller $p_{T}$ acceptance. The physics implications of these results on the QCD phase structure and the production mechanism of light nuclei in heavy-ion collisions are discussed.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, Supplemental Material: http://link.aps.org/supplemental/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.202301