Transition from baryonic to mesonic freeze-out
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2005
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Physics Letters B
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University of Cape Town
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The recently discovered sharp peak in the K+/π+ ratio in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is discussed in the framework of the statistical model. In this model a rapid change is expected as the hadronic gas undergoes a transition from a baryon-dominated to a meson-dominated gas. The transition occurs at a temperature T=140MeV and baryon chemical potential μB=410MeV corresponding to an incident energy of sNN=8.2GeV. The maximum in the Λ/π ratio is well reproduced by the statistical model, but the change in the K+/π+ ratio is much less pronounced than the one observed by the NA49 Collaboration. The calculated smooth increase of the K−/π− ratio and the shape of the Ξ−/π+ and Ω−/π+ ratios exhibiting maxima at different incident energies is consistent with the presently available experimental data. We conclude that the measured particle ratios with 20–30% deviations agree with a hadronic freeze-out scenario. These deviations seem to occur just in the transition from baryon-dominated to meson-dominated freeze-out.
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Cleymans, J., Oeschler, H., Redlich, K., & Wheaton, S. (2005). Transition from baryonic to mesonic freeze-out. Physics Letters B, 615(1), 50-54.