Exact conservation of quantum numbers B, S and Q in the statistical description of high energy collisions

High energy collisions are studied assuming that particles can be described by a hadron gas in thermal and chemical equilibrium. The exact conservation of baryon number, strangeness and charge are explicitly taken into account. For heavy ions the effect arising from the neutron surplus becomes important and leads to a substantial increase in e.g. the π-/π+ ratio. Special emphasis is therefore put on the exact conservation of charge. Comparison with experimental results from the E866 collaboration at BNL is made.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Physics

Year dc:date.issued

1997

Author dc:creator

• Marais, Mark

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18349

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/18349