PION MULTIPLICITY AS A PROBE OF THE DECONFINEMENT TRANSITION IN HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS

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作者
GORENSTEIN, MI
YANG, SN
KO, CM
机构
[1] NATL TAIWAN UNIV,DEPT PHYS,TAIPEI 10764,TAIWAN
[2] TEXAS A&M UNIV SYST,DEPT PHYS,COLLEGE STN,TX 77843
[3] TEXAS A&M UNIV SYST,INST CYCLOTRON,COLLEGE STN,TX 77843
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美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0370-2693(92)91128-V
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
The hydrochemical model is used to calculate the pion multiplicity in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Chemical reactions are explicitly taken into account in the expansion stage of the hadronic phase. It leads to the absence of chemical equilibrium among hadronic particles and a nonzero value of the pion chemical potential at thermal freeze out. We find a specific structure in the incident energy dependence of the pion multiplicity as a result of the formation of the quark-hadron mixed phase in the initial stage of the collision.
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