TY - JOUR
T1 - Chemical equilibration due to heavy Hagedorn states
AU - Greiner, C.
AU - Koch-Steinheimer, P.
AU - Liu, F. M.
AU - Shovkovy, I. A.
AU - Stöcker, H.
PY - 2005/6/1
Y1 - 2005/6/1
N2 - A scenario of heavy resonances, called massive Hagedorn states, is proposed which exhibits a fast (t ≈ 1 fm/c) chemical equilibration of (strange) baryons and anti-baryons at the QCD critical temperature T c. For relativistic heavy ion collisions this scenario predicts that hadronization is followed by a brief expansion phase during which the equilibration rate is higher than the expansion rate, so that baryons and antibaryons reach chemical equilibrium before chemical freeze-out occurs.
AB - A scenario of heavy resonances, called massive Hagedorn states, is proposed which exhibits a fast (t ≈ 1 fm/c) chemical equilibration of (strange) baryons and anti-baryons at the QCD critical temperature T c. For relativistic heavy ion collisions this scenario predicts that hadronization is followed by a brief expansion phase during which the equilibration rate is higher than the expansion rate, so that baryons and antibaryons reach chemical equilibrium before chemical freeze-out occurs.
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U2 - 10.1088/0954-3899/31/6/013
DO - 10.1088/0954-3899/31/6/013
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:21244434320
SN - 0954-3899
VL - 31
SP - S725-S732
JO - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
JF - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
IS - 6
ER -