Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2000-10-20
NewJ.Phys.3:4,2001
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
52 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/1367-2630/3/1/304
We analyze multiparticle production in a thermal framework for 7 central nucleus nucleus collisions, $e^+$+ $e^-$ annihilation into hadrons on the Z resonance and 4 hadronic reactions (p+p and p+$\bar{p}$ with partial centrality selec tion), with center of mass energies ranging from $\sqrt{s}$= 2.6 GeV (per nucleon pair) to 1.8 TeV. Thermodynamic parameters at chemical freeze-out (temperature and baryon and strangeness fugacities) are obtained from appropriate fits, generally improving in quality for reactions subjected to centrality cuts. All systems with nonvanishing fugacities are extrapolated along trajectories of equal energy density, density and entropy density to zero fugacities. The so obtained temperatures extrapolated to zero fugacities as a function of initial energy density $\epsilon_{in}$ universally show a strong rise followed by a saturating limit of $T_{lim}$ = 155 $\pm$ 6 $\pm$ 20 MeV. We interpret this behaviour as mapping out the boundary between quark gluon plasma and hadronic phases. The ratio of strange antiquarks to light ones as a function of the initial energy density $\epsilon_{in}$ shows the same behaviour as the temperature, saturating at a value of 0.365 $\pm$ 0.033 $\pm$ 0.07. No distinctive feature of 'strangeness enhancement' is seen for heavy ion collisions relative to hadronic and leptonic reactions, when compared at the same initial energy density.
Kabana Sonja
Minkowski Peter
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