Properties of baryonic, electric and strangeness chemical potentials and some of their consequences in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Analytic expressions are given for the baryonic, electric and strangeness chemical potentials which explicitly show the importance of various terms. Simple scaling relations connecting these chemical potentials are found. Applications to particle ratios and to fluctuations and related thermal properties such as the isothermal compressibility kappaT are illustrated. A possible divergence of kappaT is discussed

Obtaining the Specific Heat of Hadronic Matter from CERN/RHIC Experiments

The specific heat of hot hadronic matter is related to particle production yields from experiments done at CERN/RHIC. The mass fluctuation of excited hadrons plays an important role. Connections of the specific heat, mean hadronic mass excited and its fluctuation with properties of baryon and electric chemical potentials (value, slope and curvature) are also developed. A possible divergence of the specific heat as 1/(To-T)^2 is discussed. Some connections with net charge fluctuations are noted.Comment: 10 page

Properties of the specific heat and chemical potentials of hadronic matter from CERN/RHIC experiments at relativistic and ultrarelativistic collision energies

The specific heat, mean hadronic mass excited and its fluctuation are connected to particle production yields and properties of baryon and electric charge chemical potentials (value, slope and curvature). A possible divergence of the specific heat as 1/(T0-T)2 is discussed. A Hagedorn model with rho~m-tauexp(betahm) is studied and restriction on tau are analyzed. Limitations imposed by a Q-g transition are mentioned

Critical Exponents and Particle Multiplicity Distributions in High Energy Collisions

Data from the L3, Tasso, Opal and Delphi collaborations are analyzed in terms of a statistical model of high energy collisions. The model contains a power law critical exponent tau and Levy index alpha. These data are used to study values of tau and alpha. The very high multiplicity events in L3, Opal and Delphi are consistent with a model based on a Feynman-Wilson gas which has a tail exponent tau=3/2 and alpha=1/2.Comment: 10 pages, new table adde

Exact methods for Campi plots

We introduce for canonical fragmention models an exact method for computing expectation values which exclude the largest cluster. This method allows for the computation of the reduced multiplicity and other quantities of interest introduced by Campi, and a comparison shows that the percolation model and a recent canonical model differ mostly only in small respects in these ensemble averages.Comment: 7 pages, revtex 3.0, 2 figs. available on reques