Local equilibrium in heavy ion collisions. Microscopic model versus statistical model analysis

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1999-06-30

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9906548v1

Phys.Rev. C60 (1999) 024904

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

REVTEX, 37 pages (incl. 20 figs.), to be published in Physical Review C

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.60.024904

The assumption of local equilibrium in relativistic heavy ion collisions at energies from 10.7 AGeV (AGS) up to 160 AGeV (SPS) is checked in the microscopic transport model. Dynamical calculations performed for a central cell in the reaction are compared to the predictions of the thermal statistical model. We find that kinetic, thermal and chemical equilibration of the expanding hadronic matter are nearly approached late in central collisions at AGS energy for $t \geq 10$ fm/$c$ in a central cell. At these times the equation of state may be approximated by a simple dependence $P \cong (0.12-0.15) \epsilon$. Increasing deviations of the yields and the energy spectra of hadrons from statistical model values are observed for increasing energy, 40 AGeV and 160 AGeV. These violations of local equilibrium indicate that a fully equilibrated state is not reached, not even in the central cell of heavy ion collisions at energies above 10 AGeV. The origin of these findings is traced to the multiparticle decays of strings and many-body decays of resonances.

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