Density and boundary effects on pion distributions in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Year: 1997

Authors: Ayala A., Smerzi A.

Autors Affiliation: Department of Physics, Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801-3080, 1110 W. Green St., United States; SISSA, 34014, Trieste, Via Beirut 4, Italy

Abstract: We compute the pion inclusive momentum distribution in a heavy-ion collision, assuming thermal equilibrium and accounting for boundary effects at the time of decoupling. We calculate the chemical potential corresponding to an average pion multiplicity in central collisions and explore the consequences of having the pion system produced close to the critical temperature for Bose-Einstein condensation. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.

Journal/Review: PHYSICS LETTERS B

Volume: 405 (1-2)      Pages from: 20  to: 24

More Information: A.A. thanksG . Baym, J. Kapusta, G. Bertsch and B. Vanderheydenf or insightful discussions and suggestions, theI nstitutefo r Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington for its hospitality and the Department of Energy for partial supportd uring the completion of this work. AS. thanksV .R. Pandhaxipandefo r his kind hospitality at theP hysics Departmento f the UIUC. We are indebtedt o J. Stachelf rom the E877 collaboration, for discussing and making available their data and for very useful comments and suggestions. Support for this work has been receivedi n part by the US National Science Foundation under grant NSF PHY94-21309.
KeyWords: Nucleus-nucleus Collisions; Transverse-momentum Spectrum; Energy; Shape; Flow; Ags
DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00627-8

Citations: 18
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