TY - JOUR A1 - Brockmann, R. A1 - Harris, J. W. A1 - Sandoval, A. A1 - Stock, Reinhard A1 - Ströbele, Herbert A1 - Odyniec, G. A1 - Pugh, H. G. A1 - Schroeder, L. S. A1 - Renfordt, R. E. A1 - Schall, D. A1 - Bangert, K. A1 - Rauch, W. A1 - Wolf, K. L. T1 - Pion and proton "temperatures" in relativistic heavy-ion reactions N2 - Pion and proton production are measured to investigate thermal equilibrium in central collisions of 40Ar+KCl at 1.8 GeV/nucleon. The bulk of the pion yield is isotropic in the c.m. system, with an apparent temperature of 58±3 MeV, much lower than the 118±2 MeV of the protons. It is shown that the low pion "temperature" can be explained by the decay kinematics of delta resonances in thermal equilibrium. A (5±1)% component in the pion spectrum is, however, found to have a temperature of 110±10 MeV. The effect on the spectra of possible contributions from collective radial flow is discussed. Y1 - 1984 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3734 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-17500 ER -