Thermal hadron production in relativistic nuclear collisions

Jan, 2009
8 pages
Published in:
  • Acta Phys.Polon.B 40 (2009) 1005-1012
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present the status of the description of hadron production in central nucleus-nucleus collisions within the statistical model . Extending previous studies by inclusion of very high-mass resonances (m>2 GeV), and the up-to-now neglected scalar σ\sigma meson leads to an improved description of the data. In particular, the hitherto poorly reproduced energy dependence of the K+/pi+ ratio at SPS energies ('the horn') is now well described through the connection to the hadronic mass spectrum and, implicitly, Hagedorn's limiting temperature.
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