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The same key to different doors - temperature puzzles

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-12-30 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The notion of temperature in many body elementary particle processes is in a common use for decades. Thermal models have become simple and universal effective tools to describe particle production -- not only in high energy heavy ion collisions but also in high energy elementary particle collisions. We perform a critical analysis of the temperature concepts in such processes. Although the temperature concept is a very useful tool, nevertheless it should be used with the care, taking into account that usually it is just model dependent fitted parameter.

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@article{arxiv.1412.8076,
  title  = {The same key to different doors - temperature puzzles},
  author = {Ludwik Turko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.8076},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

8 pages, Lecture at the 32th Max-Born-Symposium and HECOLS workshop on "Three Days of Phase Transitions in Compact Stars, Heavy-Ion Collisions and Supernovae", Wroc\l{}aw, Poland, February 17--19, 2014

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