Chemical freeze-out and the QCD phase transition temperature
By P. Braun-Munzinger, J. Stachel, C. Wetterich. 2003
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Abstract We argue that hadron multiplicities in central high energy nucleus–nucleus collisions are established very close to the phase boundary between hadronic and quark matter. In the hadronic picture this can be described by multi-particle collisions whose importance is strongly enhanced due to the high particle density in the phase transition region. As a consequence of the rapid fall-off of the multi-particle scattering rates the experimentally determined chemical freeze-out temperature is a good measure of the phase transition temperature.
Subfields: Geophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Kenji Fukushima
- Alice Collaboration
- C. Fischer
- J. Stachel
- P. Braun-Munzinger
- V. Koch
- T. Schaefer
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- Multiplicity dependence of pion, kaon, proton and lambda production in p–Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV (2013, background): “[8]), but a surprisingly large deviation (about 50%) was found for the proton production yield at the LHC [9,10].”