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Chemical Freeze-out of Strange Particles and Possible Root of Strangeness Suppression
Two approaches to treat the chemical freeze-out of strange particles in
hadron resonance gas model are analyzed. The first one employs their
non-equillibration via the usual \gamma_s factor and such a model describes the
hadron multiplicities measured in nucleus-nucleus collisions at AGS, SPS and
RHIC energies with \chi^2/dof = 1.15. Surprisingly, at low energies we find not
the strangeness suppression, but its enhancement. Also we suggest an
alternative approach to treat the strange particle freeze-out separately, but
with the full chemical equilibration. This approach is based on the
conservation laws which allow us to connect the freeze-outs of strange and
non-strange hadrons. Within the suggested approach the same set of hadron
multiplicities can be described better than within the conventional approach
with \chi^2/dof = 1.06. Remarkably, the fully equilibrated approach describes
the strange hyperons and antihyperons much better than the conventional one.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Catalytic hydroboration by an imido-hydrido complex of Mo(IV)
The imido-hydrido complex (ArN)Mo(H)(Cl)(PMe3)3 catalyses
a variety of hydroboration reactions, including the first example
of catalytic addition of HBCat to nitriles to form the
bis(borylated) amines RCH2N(BCat)2. The latter species easily
undergoes chemoselective coupling with aldehydes R0C(O)H to
yield imines RCH2NQC(H)R
Evolution of Baryon-Free Matter Produced in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
A 3-fluid hydrodynamic model is introduced for simulating heavy-ion
collisions at incident energies between few and about 200 AGeV. In addition to
the two baryon-rich fluids of 2-fluid models, the new model incorporates a
third, baryon-free (i.e. with zero net baryonic charge) fluid which is created
in the mid-rapidity region. Its evolution is delayed due to a formation time
, during which the baryon-free fluid neither thermalizes nor interacts
with the baryon-rich fluids. After formation it thermalizes and starts to
interact with the baryon-rich fluids. It is found that for =0 the
interaction strongly affects the baryon-free fluid. However, at reasonable
finite formation time, =1 fm/c, the effect of this interaction turns out
to be substantially reduced although still noticeable. Baryonic observables are
only slightly affected by the interaction with the baryon-free fluid.Comment: 17 pages, 3 figures, submitted to the issue of Phys. of Atomic Nuclei
dedicated to S.T. Belyaev on the occasion of his 80th birthday, typos
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Hadron Resonance Gas Model with Induced Surface Tension
Here we present a physically transparent generalization of the multicomponent
Van der Waals equation of state in the grand canonical ensemble. For the
one-component case the third and fourth virial coefficients are calculated
analytically. It is shown that an adjustment of a single model parameter allows
us to reproduce the third and fourth virial coefficients of the gas of hard
spheres with small deviations from their exact values. A thorough comparison of
the compressibility factor and speed of sound of the developed model with the
one and two component Carnahan-Starling equation of state is made. It is shown
that the model with the induced surface tension is able to reproduce the
results of the Carnahan-Starling equation of state up to the packing fractions
0.2-0.22 at which the usual Van der Waals equation of state is inapplicable. At
higher packing fractions the developed equation of state is softer than the gas
of hard spheres and, hence, it breaks causality in the domain where the
hadronic description is expected to be inapplicable. Using this equation of
state we develop an entirely new hadron resonance gas model and apply it to a
description of the hadron yield ratios measured at AGS, SPS, RHIC and ALICE
energies of nuclear collisions. The achieved quality of the fit per degree of
freedom is about 1.08. We confirm that the strangeness enhancement factor has a
peak at low AGS energies, while at and above the highest SPS energy of
collisions the chemical equilibrium of strangeness is observed. We argue that
the chemical equilibrium of strangeness, i.e. , observed
above the center of mass collision energy 4.3 GeV may be related to the
hadronization of quark gluon bags which have the Hagedorn mass spectrum, and,
hence, it may be a new signal for the onset of deconfinement
Catalytic hydroboration by an imido-hydrido complex of Mo(IV)
The imido-hydrido complex (ArN)Mo(H)(Cl)(PMe3)3 catalyses
a variety of hydroboration reactions, including the first example
of catalytic addition of HBCat to nitriles to form the
bis(borylated) amines RCH2N(BCat)2. The latter species easily
undergoes chemoselective coupling with aldehydes R0C(O)H to
yield imines RCH2NQC(H)R
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