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Shock-like Freeze-out in Relativistic Hydrodynamics
We have formulated a self-consistent model of freeze-out on an arbitrary
hypersurface. It conserves energy and momentum across the discontinuity between
ideal fluid and the gas of free particles. Energy and momentum of those free
particles have non-equilibrium values that could be a signal for the formation
of hot and dense matter in heavy ion collisions.Comment: 13 pages, 2 plot
Strangeness Production in Light and Intermediate size Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions
Within the statistical model, the net strangeness conservation and incomplete
total strangeness equilibration lead to the suppression of strange particle
multiplicities. Furthermore, suppression effects appear to be stronger in small
systems. By treating the production of strangeness within the canonical
ensemble formulation we developed a simple model which allows to predict the
excitation function of ratio in nucleus-nucleus collisions. In
doing so we assumed that different values of , measured in p+p and
Pb+Pb interactions at the same collision energy per nucleon, are driven by the
finite size effects only. These predictions may serve as a baseline for
experimental results from NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS and the future CBM
experiment at FAIR
Transverse momentum spectra of J/psi and psi prime mesons from quark gluon plasma hadronization in nuclear collisions
Recent results on transverse mass spectra of J/psi and psi prime mesons in central Pb+Pb collisions at 158 AGeV are considered. It is shown that those results support a hypothesis of statistical production of charmonia at hadronization and suggest the early thermal freeze-out of J/psi and psi prime mesons. Based on this approach the collective transverse velocity of hadronizing quark gluon plasma is estimated to be \approx 0.2. Predictions for transverse mass spectra of hidden and open charm mesons at SPS and RHIC are discussed
Omega, J/psi and psi' production in nuclear collisions and quark gluon plasma hadronization
The transverse mass spectra of Omega, J/psi and psi' in Pb+Pb collisions at 158 AGeV are studied within a hydrodynamical model of the quark gluon plasma expansion and hadronization. The model reproduces the existing data with the common hadronization parameters: temperature T=T_H = 170 MeV and average collective transverse velocity v_T = 0.2
Omega, J/psi and psi' transverse mass spectra at RHIC
The transverse mass spectra of J/psi and psi' mesons and Omega hyperons produced in central Au+Au collisions at RHIC energies are discussed within a statistical model used successfully for the interpretation of the SPS results. The comparison of the presented model with the future RHIC data should serve as a further crucial test of the hypothesis of statistical production of charmonia at hadronization. Finally, in case of validity, the approach should allow to estimate the mean transverse flow velocity at the quark gluon plasma hadronization
Transverse activity of kaons and the deconfinement phase transition in nucleus-nucleus collisions
We found that the experimental results on transverse mass spectra of kaons produced in central Pb+Pb (Au+Au) interactions show an anomalous dependence on the collision energy. The inverse slopes of the spectra increase with energy in the low (AGS) and high (RHIC) energy domains, whereas they are constant in the intermediate (SPS) energy range. We argue that this anomaly is probably caused by a modification of the equation of state in the transition region between confined and deconfined matter. This observation may be considered as a new signal, in addition to the previously reported anomalies in the pion and strangeness production, of the onset of deconfinement located in the low SPS energy domain
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