1997/07/15 by Josef Sollfrank
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dynamics (music) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle (ecology) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Strangeness #Strangeness production #Thermal #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/23/12/015
published as J.Phys.G23:1903-1919,1997 · 23 pages, LaTeX (figures included); Talk given at the Int. Symposium on Strangeness in Quark Matter 1997, Santorini (Greece), April 1997
arxiv created 1997/07/15 · openalex publication_date 1997/12/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Thermal models are very useful in the understanding of particle production in general and especially in the case of strangeness. We summarize the assumptions which go into a thermal model calculation and which differ in the application of various groups. We compare the different results. Using our own calculation we discuss the validity of the thermal model and the amount of strangeness equilibration at CERN-SPS energies. Finally, the implications of the thermal analysis on the reaction dynamics are discussed.