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The total pion production cross section in central high energy heavy ion collisions depends strongly on the nuclear equation of state. This fact can be used to detect phase transitions from normal nuclear matter into abnormal superdense states (density isomers).
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For reviews see e.g.: J.R. Nix — to be published in Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics (1978) or Horst Stöcker and Walter Greiner — to be published in Phys. Rep. (1978)
Horst Stöcker, Jürgen Hofmann, Werner Scheid and Walter Greiner: — Proc of the Conf. on Nuclear Collisions, Bled (Yugoslavia), September 1977, — Proc. of the Bormio Winter Meeting 1978, Bormio (Italy), January 1978.
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Stöcker, H., Greiner, W. & Scheid, W. Dependence of particle production in high energy heavy ion collisions on the nuclear equation of state. Z Physik A 286, 121–122 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01434620
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01434620