Thermal equilibration and expansion in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the AGS

1994/10/31 by P. Braun‐Munzinger, P. Braun-Munzinger, Johanna Stachel +4 · 535 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Biology #Engineering #Flow (mathematics) #Hadron #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Mechanics #Momentum (technical analysis) #Nuclear physics #Nucleus #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Rapidity #Thermal #Thermodynamics #Transverse plane #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(94)01534-j

published in Physics Letters B 344(1-4), 43-48 (Elsevier BV) · 11 pages + 2 uuencoded figures

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Abstract

The rather complete data set of hadron yields from central Si + A collisions at the Brookhaven AGS is used to test whether the system at freeze-out is in thermal and hadro-chemical equilibrium. Rapidity and transverse momentum distributions are discussed with regards to the information they provide on hydrodynamic flow.

Citations

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• Observation of Anisotropic Event Shapes and Transverse Flow in Ultrarelativistic Au + Au Collisions
• Review of particle properties

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