Maxima in strangeness observed in heavy ion collisions using statistical models

Nucleus-Nucleus collisions enable the heating and compression of nuclei in order to probe matter under extreme temperature and energy density. With a resonance gas mode, of hadronic matter, Hagedorn came to the conclusion that on increasing the energy density, hadronic matter could exist above a limiting temperature of appriximately 160 MeV. Above this temperature it is expected that hadronic matter undergoes a phase transition to a state of deconfined fundamental quarks and gluons known as quark gluon plasma (QGP).

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Physics

Year dc:date.issued

2004

Author dc:creator

• Razak, Nawahl

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6549

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/6549