21 research outputs found
Probing resonance matter with virtual photons
In the energy domain of 1-2 GeV per nucleon, HADES has measured rare
penetrating probes (e+e-) in C+C, Ar+KCl, d+p, p+p and p+Nb collisions. For the
first time the electron pairs were reconstructed from quasi-free n+p
sub-reactions by detecting the proton spectator from the deuteron breakup. An
experimentally constrained NN reference spectrum was established. Our results
demonstrate that the gross features of di-electron spectra in C+C collisions
can be explained as a superposition of independent NN collisions. On the other
hand, a direct comparison of the NN reference spectrum with the e+e- invariant
mass distribution measured in the heavier system Ar+KCl at 1.76 GeV/u shows an
excess yield above the reference, which we attribute to radiation from
resonance matter. Moreover, the combined measurement of di-electrons and
strangeness in Ar+KCl collisions has provided further intriguing results which
are also discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of the International Nuclear Physics
Conference - INPC 2010, Vancouver, Canada, July 4 - 9 201
On the exact conservation laws in thermal models and the analysis of AGS and SIS experimental results
The production of hadrons in relativistic heavy ion collisions is studied
using a statistical ensemble with thermal and chemical equilibrium. Special
attention is given to exact conservation laws, i.e. certain charges are treated
canonically instead of using the usual grand canonical approach. For small
systems, the exact conservation of baryon number, strangeness and electric
charge is to be taken into account. We have derived compact, analytical
expressions for particle abundances in such ensemble. As an application, the
change in ratios in AGS experiments with different interaction system
sizes is well reproduced. The canonical treatment of three charges becomes
impractical very quickly with increasing system size. Thus, we draw our
attention to exact conservation of strangeness, and treat baryon number and
electric charge grand canonically. We present expressions for particle
abundances in such ensemble as well, and apply them to reproduce the large
variety of particle ratios in GSI SIS 2 A GeV Ni-Ni experiments. At the
energies considered here, the exact strangeness conservation fully accounts for
strange particle suppression, and no extra chemical factor is needed.Comment: Talk given at Strangeness in Quark Matter '98, Padova, Italy (1998).
Submitted to J.Phys. G. 5 pages, 2 figure
Abundance of Delta Resonances in 58Ni+58Ni Collisions between 1 and 2 AGeV
Charged pion spectra measured in 58Ni-58Ni collisions at 1.06, 1.45 and 1.93
AGeV are interpreted in terms of a thermal model including the decay of Delta
resonances. The transverse momentum spectra of pions are well reproduced by
adding the pions originating from the Delta-resonance decay to the component of
thermal pions, deduced from the high transverse momentum part of the pion
spectra. About 10 and 18% of the nucleons are excited to Delta states at
freeze-out for beam energies of 1 and 2 AGeV, respectively.Comment: 14 pages, LaTeX with 3 included figures; submitted to Physics Letters