https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00464-1
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Bose-Einstein condensation of pions in proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider using non-extensive Tsallis statistics
1
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Simrol, 453552, Indore, India
2
CERN Scientific Associate at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Received:
21
January
2021
Accepted:
15
April
2021
Published online:
6
May
2021
The possibility of formation of Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) is studied in pp collisions at 
TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. A thermodynamically consistent non-extensive formulation of the identified hadron transverse momentum distributions is used to estimate the critical temperature required to form BEC of charged pions, which are the most abundant species in a multi-particle production process in hadronic and nuclear collisions. The obtained results have been contrasted with the systems produced in Pb-Pb collisions to have a better understanding. We observe an explicit dependency of BEC critical temperature and number of particles in the pion condensates on the non-extensive parameter q, which is a measure of degree of non-equilibrium – as q decreases, the critical temperature increases and approaches to the critical temperature obtained from Bose-Einstein statistics without non-extensivity. Studies are performed on the final state multiplicity dependence of number of particles in the pion condensates in a wide range of multiplicity covering hadronic and heavy-ion collisions, using the inputs from experimental transverse momentum spectra.
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