Investigation of the nuclear modification factor from RHIC to LHC energies using the Boltzmann transport equation in conjunction with the q -Weibull distribution

The study of nuclear modification factor is crucial in advancing our knowledge of the hot and dense nuclear matter created during high energy heavy-ion collision. In this direction, we have developed a theoretical model for the nuclear modification factor using the Boltzmann transport equation in relaxation time approximation with the q -Weibull distribution as the final state distribution and studied the experimental data of nuclear modification factor of charged hadrons as well as identified particles at various energies ranging from 7.7 GeV measured at RHIC up to the maximum value of 5.44 TeV studied in LHC. We observed a good agreement between the model and the experimental data as can be quantified using the χ 2 / N D F values. We have also studied the mass dependence of different fit parameters that appears in the theoretical model and observe a linear mass dependence of some parameters.