Exploring the effect of hadron cascade-time on particle production in Xe+Xe collisions at $\sqrt {s_{NN}}$ = 5.44 TeV through a multi-phase transport model

Heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies provide extreme conditions of energy density and temperature to produce a deconfined state of quarks and gluons. Xenon (Xe), being a deformed nucleus, further gives access to the effect of initial geometry on final state particle production. This study focuses on the effect of nuclear deformation and hadron cascade-time on the particle production and elliptic flow using a multiphase transport (AMPT) model in <math><mi>Xe</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>Xe</mi></math> collisions at <math><mrow><msqrt><msub><mi>s</mi><mrow><mi>N</mi><mi>N</mi></mrow></msub></msqrt><mo>=</mo><mn>5.44</mn><mspace width="0.16em"/><mi>TeV</mi></mrow></math>. We explore the effect of hadronic cascade time on identified particle production through the study of <math><msub><mi>p</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">T</mi></msub></math>-differential particle ratios. The effect of hadronic cascade time on the generation of elliptic flow is studied by varying the cascade time between 5 and <math><mrow><mn>25</mn><mspace width="0.16em"/><mi>fm</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>c</mi></mrow></math>. This study shows the final state interactions among particles generate additional anisotropic flow with increasing hadron cascade time, especially at very low and high <math><msub><mi>p</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">T</mi></msub></math>.