Review of structures in the energy dependence of hadronic observables

  • The energy dependence of various hadronic observables is reviewed. The study of their evolution from AGS over SPS to the highest RHIC energy reveals interesting features, which might locate a possible onset of deconfinement. These observables include transverse spectra of different particle types and their total multiplicities, as well as elliptic flow. In this context especially the observation of a maximum of the strangeness to pion ratio is of particular interest, since on one hand it has been predicted as a signal for the onset of deconfinement but on the other hand also statistical model calculations exhibit qualitatively similar structures. The sharpness of these features is however not reproduced by hadronic scenarios. The significance of these structures will be discussed in this contribution. Other observables, such as radius parameters from Bose-Einstein correlations, on the other hand do not exhibit any structure in their energy dependence.

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Author:Christoph BlumeORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-45420
ArXiv Id:http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0610049v2
Parent Title (German):Proceedings of Science, 2006, The 3rd ed. of the internat. workshop "The Critical Point and the Onset of Deconfinement", July 3 - 5 2006, Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, Italy
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2007/06/14
Year of first Publication:2007
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2007/06/14
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Source:The 3rd ed. of the internat. workshop "The Critical Point and the Onset of Deconfinement", July 3 - 5 2006, Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, Italy. - arXiv:nucl-ex/0610049v2
HeBIS-PPN:188893725
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht