Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2000-10-10
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
5 pages and 6 figures
Scientific paper
Employing the recently developed neXus model, we compare the yields of different hadrons in ultra-relativistic collisions: electron-positron annihilation at 91 GeV, proton-proton scattering at 17 GeV and nucleus-nucleus collisions at 17 GeV (SPS) and 200 GeV (RHIC). Plotting the yields as a function of the hadron masses, we find very surprising results: we observe that the spectra are practically identical for e+e- at 91 GeV and central nucleus-nucleus reactions at SPS and RHIC energies, whereas the spectrum for proton-proton scattering is somewhat steeper. All have the form one expects if the particles were emitted by a canonical system which is characterized by a temperature and chemical potentials. These identical forms have, however, different origins: in e+e- and pp the exponential shape it is due to the statistical behavior of string fragmentation, which has absolutely nothing to do with thermalization, in AA it is caused by phase space. The fact that e+e- and nuclear results agree is pure coincidence. Surprisingly the results for pp and e+e- differ, although here the production mechanism is identical. In pp collisions we see directly that the string energy is very limited and hence the high mass baryons are suppressed. We conclude that it is practically impossible to draw conclusions from hadronic yields about the reaction mechanism.
Aichelin Joerg
Drescher H.
Werner Kirstin
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