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Universal pion freeze-out phase-space density

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-09 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Results on the pion phase-space density at freeze-out in sulphur-nucleus, Pb-Pb and pi-p collisions at the CERN SPS are presented. All heavy-ion reactions are consistent with the thermal Bose-Einstein distribution f=1/[exp(E/T)-1] at T ~ 120 MeV, modified for radial expansion. pi-p data are also consistent with f, but at T ~ 180 MeV and without radial flow.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9902342,
  title  = {Universal pion freeze-out phase-space density},
  author = {D. Ferenc and U. Heinz and B. Tomasik and U. A. Wiedemann and J. G. Cramer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9902342},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages LaTeX, including 6 postscript figures

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