Pion suppression in nuclear collisions

Jan, 1997
11 pages
Published in:
  • Eur.Phys.J.C 5 (1998) 129-133
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Report number:
  • IKF-HENPG-6-96

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Abstract:
The pion multiplicity per participating nucleon in central nucleus-nucleus collisions at the energies 2-15 A GeV is significantly smaller than in nucleon-nucleon interactions at the same collision energy. This effect of pion suppression is argued to appear due to the evolution of the system produced at the early stage of heavy-ion collisions towards a local thermodynamic equilibrium and further isentropic expansion.
Note:
  • a revised version, to be published in Eur. Phys. J. C (1998)
  • nucleus nucleus: nuclear reaction
  • central region
  • pi: multiplicity
  • thermodynamics
  • numerical calculations: interpretation of experiments
  • 2-15 GeV/nucleon