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Statistical-Thermal Model Calculations using THERMUS
Selected results obtained using THERMUS, a newly-developed
statistical-thermal model analysis package, are presented.Comment: Contributed to 8th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark
Matter, Cape Town, South Africa, 15-20 September 200
Centrality Dependence of Thermal Parameters Deduced from Hadron Multiplicities in Au + Au Collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 130 GeV
We analyse the centrality dependence of thermal parameters deduced from
hadron m ultiplicities in Au + Au collisions at .
While the chemical freeze-out temperature and chemical potentials are found to
be roughly centrality-independent, the strangeness saturation factor
increases with participant number towards unity, supporting the assumption of
equilibrium freeze-out conditions in central collisions
System-size dependence
The final state in The final state in heavy-ion collisions has a higher
degree of strangeness saturation than the one produced in collisions between
elementary particles like p-p or p-. A systematic analysis of this
phenomenon is made for C-C, Si-Si and Pb-Pb collisions at the CERN SPS collider
and for collisions at RHIC and at AGS energies. Strangeness saturation
is shown to increase smoothly with the number of participants at AGS, CERN and
RHIC energies.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, presented at SQM2003 conferenc