Pion production as a probe of the nuclear matter equation of state

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(85)90476-9

Physics Letters B

Volume 153, Issue 6, 11 April 1985, Pages 377-381

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Abstract

It is shown that thermal and chemical equilibrium are approached during the high density stage in central nucleus-nucleus collisions and that the yield of produced pions is determined at that time. A chemical model with Rankine-Hugoniot compression is used to extract a nuclear matter equation of state from the observed pion yield assuming a partition of the internal energy per nucleon into thermal and compressional energy fractions, with only the former part contributing to particle production.

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¹: Present address: Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

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Pion production as a probe of the nuclear matter equation of state

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