Pion multiplicity as a probe of the deconfinement transition in heavy-ion collisions Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The hydrochemical model is used to calculate the pion multiplicity in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Chemical reactions are explicitly taken into account in the expansion stage of the hadronic phase. It leads to the absence of chemical equilibrium among hadronic particles and a nonzero value of the pion chemical potential at thermal freeze out. We find a specific structure in the incident energy dependence of the pion multiplicity as a result of the formation of the quark-hadron mixed phase in the initial stage of the collision. 1992.

published proceedings

  • Physics Letters B

author list (cited authors)

  • Gorenstein, M. I., Yang, S. N., & Ko, C. M.

citation count

  • 10

complete list of authors

  • Gorenstein, Mark I||Yang, Shin Nan||Ko, Che Ming

publication date

  • May 1992