Flow effects on the freeze-out phase-space density in heavy-ion collisions

The strong longitudinal expansion of the reaction zone formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is found to significantly reduce the spatially averaged pion phase-space density, compared to naive estimates based on thermal distributions. This has important implications for data interpretation and leads to larger values for the extracted pion chemical potential at kinetic freeze-out.

• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  Physical Review C

• Publication date

  2001-08-22

• Fields of study

  Physics

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevC.65.031902arXiv nucl-th/0108051
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