Chemical equilibrium study in nucleus-nucleus collisions at relativistic energies

  • We present a detailed study of chemical freeze-out in nucleus-nucleus collisions at beam energies of 11.6, 30, 40, 80 and 158A GeV. By analyzing hadronic multiplicities within the statistical hadronization approach, we have studied the strangeness production as a function of centre of mass energy and of the parameters of the source. We have tested and compared different versions of the statistical model, with special emphasis on possible explanations of the observed strangeness hadronic phase space under-saturation. We show that, in this energy range, the use of hadron yields at midrapidity instead of in full phase space artificially enhances strangeness production and could lead to incorrect conclusions as far as the occurrence of full chemical equilibrium is concerned. In addition to the basic model with an extra strange quark non-equilibrium parameter, we have tested three more schemes: a two-component model superimposing hadrons coming out of single nucleon-nucleon interactions to those emerging from large fireballs at equilibrium, a model with local strangeness neutrality and a model with strange and light quark non-equilibrium parameters. The behaviour of the source parameters as a function of colliding system and collision energy is studied. The description of strangeness production entails a non-monotonic energy dependence of strangeness saturation parameter gamma_S with a maximum around 30A GeV. We also present predictions of the production rates of still unmeasured hadrons including the newly discovered Theta^+(1540) pentaquark baryon.

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Author:Francesco BecattiniORCiDGND, Marek GaździckiORCiD, Antti Keränen, Jaakko Manninen, Reinhard StockGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-16376
ArXiv Id:http://arxiv.org/abs/abs/hep-ph/0310049
Document Type:Preprint
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2005/09/27
Year of first Publication:2004
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2005/09/27
Page Number:36
Note:
Preprint, später in: Phys.Rev. C69 (2004), http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0310049
Source:Phys.Rev. C69 (2004), http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0310049
HeBIS-PPN:185779298
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht