Research Article

Energy-Dependent Chemical Potentials of Light Hadrons and Quarks Based on Transverse Momentum Spectra and Yield Ratios of Negative to Positive Particles

Figure 9

Transverse momentum spectra for positive (, , and ) and negative (, , and ) particles produced in inelastic pp collisions at (a, c) 900 GeV and (b, d) 2.76 TeV. The symbols represent the experimental data recorded by the CMS Collaboration in [50]. The errors are the combined uncorrelated statistical and systematic ones, and the fully correlated normalization uncertainty is 3.0%. The curves are our results fitted by the two-component Erlang distribution.