Strangeness production in heavy ion collisions at finite baryon number density

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(90)91604-A

Physics Letters B

Volume 242, Issue 1, 31 May 1990, Pages 111-114

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Abstract

We study the K⁺/π⁺ and K⁻/π⁻ production rates in heavy ion collisions, using a hadron gas model which includes baryon repulsion and intermediate resonances, taking strangeness conservation into account. In such a description, the state of the system is specified by its temperature T and its baryon number density n_B. Fixing the K⁺/π⁺ and K⁻/π⁻ rates then determines the freeze-out values of T and n_B. The production rates recently measured in silicon-gold collisions at the Brookhaven AGS energies are shown to give 93 ⩽ T ⩽ 112 MeV and 0.02 ⩽ n_B ⩽ 0.12 baryons/fm³.

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Strangeness production in heavy ion collisions at finite baryon number density

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