Published July 1990 | Version v1
Journal article

Entropy content from strange-particle ratios in the E802 experiment

  • 1. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Hungary). Central Research Inst. for Physics

Description

A method is given for reconstructing the local state of a heavy ion collision which produced the detected particles. Only some particle ratios are needed; in the simplest case two particles will determine the local state, assuming complete thermodynamic equilibrium, and further particles are used to check this last assumption. Applying the method on the available data of the E802 experiment, T ≅ 120 MeV, n/n0 ∼ 0.4 and S/NB ∼ 14 is obtained, which is a reasonable break-up stage. (author)

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Journal Title
Journal of Physics, G (London). Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
16
Journal Issue
7
Series
J. Phys., G.
Journal Page Range
1019-1037
ISSN
0305-4616
CODEN
JPHGB