Particle production in HRG with thermodynamically consistent EoS and partially deformable hadrons

In the present work, we analyze several strange as well as non-strange relative hadronic yields obtained in the ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions (URHIC) experiments over a wide range of centre-of-mass collision energy (\(\sqrt{s_{NN}}\)). We invoke the formation of a hot and dense hadronic resonance gas (HRG) in the final stage following the URHIC. We use an earlier proposed thermodynamically consistent approach for obtaining the equation of state (EoS) of a HRG. It takes into account an important aspect of the hadronic interaction, viz., the hadronic hard-core repulsion, by assigning hard-core volumes to the hadrons, leading to an excluded volume (EV) type effect. We have invoked the bag model approach to assign hard-core volumes to baryons (antibaryons) while treating mesons to be point particles. We employ ansatz to obtain the dependence of the temperature and BCP of the HRG system on the centre-of-mass energy in the URHIC. We also find strong evidence of double freeze-out scenario, corresponding to baryons (antibaryons) and mesons, respectively. Strangeness (anti-strangeness) imbalance factor is also seen to play an important role in explaining the ratio of strange hadrons to the non-strange ones. The HRG model can explain the experimental data on various relative hadronic multiplicities quite satisfactorily over a wide range of \(\sqrt{s_{NN}}\), ranging from the lowest RHIC energies to the highest LHC energies for the set of the model parameters obtaining the best theoretical fit to the experimental data by minimizing the \(\chi^{2}\)/dof value.