Thermal hadron production in high-energy heavy ion collisions

May, 1992
41 pages
Published in:
  • Z.Phys.C 57 (1993) 135-148
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Report number:
  • BI-TP-92-08,
  • CERN-TH-6523-92

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Abstract:
We provide a method to test if hadrons produced in high energy heavy ion collisions were emitted at freeze-out from an equilibrium hadron gas. Our considerations are based on an ideal gas at fixed temperature TfT_f, baryon number density nBn_B, and vanishing total strangeness. The constituents of this gas are all hadron resonances up to a mass of 2 GeV; they are taken to decay according to the experimentally observed branching ratios. The ratios of the various resulting hadron production rates are tabulated as functions of TfT_f and nBn_B. These tables can be used for the equilibration analysis of any heavy ion data; we illustrate this for some specific cases.
  • nucleus nucleus: nuclear reaction
  • scattering: heavy ion
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • hadron: gas
  • thermodynamics
  • meson: hadroproduction
  • hadroproduction: meson
  • baryon: hadroproduction
  • hadroproduction: baryon
  • baryon number: density