Density and Boundary Effects on Pion Distributions in Relativistic Heavy--Ion Collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-30 v1 Nuclear Theory
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.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9702233,
title = {Density and Boundary Effects on Pion Distributions in Relativistic Heavy--Ion Collisions},
author = {Alejandro Ayala and Augusto Smerzi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9702233},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Latex, 4 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to Phys. Lett. B