Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1997-10-29
Eur.Phys.J.C5:143-153,1998
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
24 pages, 6 .ps figures, submitted to Z. Phys. C
Scientific paper
10.1007/s100520050256
The data on average hadron multiplicities in central A+A collisions measured at CERN SPS are analysed with the ideal hadron gas model. It is shown that the full chemical equilibrium version of the model fails to describe the experimental results. The agreement of the data with the off-equilibrium version allowing for partial strangeness saturation is significantly better. The freeze-out temperature of about 180 MeV seems to be independent of the system size (from S+S to Pb+Pb) and in agreement with that extracted in e+e-, pp and p{\bar p} collisions. The strangeness suppression is discussed at both hadron and valence quark level. It is found that the hadronic strangeness saturation factor gamma_S increases from about 0.45 for pp interactions to about 0.7 for central A+A collisions with no significant change from S+S to Pb+Pb collisions. The quark strangeness suppression factor lambda_S is found to be about 0.2 for elementary collisions and about 0.4 for heavy ion collisions independently of collision energy and type of colliding system
Becattini Francesco
Gazdzicki Marek
Sollfrank Josef
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