PHY 599 Seminar
Statistical Mechanics of Nuclear Collisions
Benjamin Gläßle
02/25/2009
Abstract
In my talk I want to introduce the thermodynamical analysis of data from (ultrarelativistic)
nucleus-nucleus collisions at AGS, SPS and RHIC. A simple thermodynamical model can be
used to determine the temperature T and the Baryon chemical potential µB at freeze-out
from Quark Gluon Plasma to a free Hadron gas. This phase boundary can be investigated by
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scanning the beam energy ( sN N ). Results and restrictions of this method will be discussed.
References
[1] P. Braun-Munzinger, Hadron production in central nucleus-nucleus collisions at chemical
freeze-out, arXiv.org nucl-th/0511071v3 (2006)
[2] M. Stephanov, QCD phase diagram: an overview, arXiv.org hep-lat/0701002v1 (2006)
[3] J. Cleymans, Comparison of chemical freeze-out criteria in heavy-ion collisions, Physical
Review C 73, 034905 (2006)
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