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Significance of temperature measurements in relativistic nuclear collisions

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Zeitschrift für Physik A Atoms and Nuclei

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We discuss the importance of temperature measurements for probing the properties of dense, hot hadron matter in relativistic nuclear collisions. The effects of the collective matter flow are considered. It is pointed out that information about the existence of a limiting temperatureT max≳m σ can only be obtained from future experimental facilities with beam energiesE LAS>5 GeV/n. We also discuss the possibility of observing abnormal nuclear matter via a secondary, high temperature component in the particle spectra and via a shoulder in the pion multiplicity distributions.

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  1. Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

    H. Stöcker

  2. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow, USSR

    A. A. Ogloblin

  3. Institut für Theoretische Physik der Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Federal Republic of Germany

    W. Greiner

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This work was supported by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Bonn, Germany, and the Director, Office of Energy Research, Division of Nuclear Physics of the Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract W-7405-ENG-48

We gratefully acknowledge fruitful discussions with Reinhardt Stock, Shoji Nagamiya, and Miklos Gyulassy. This work was supported by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Bonn, Germany, and the Director, Office of Energy Research, Division of Nuclear Physics of the Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract W-7405-ENG-48.

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Stöcker, H., Ogloblin, A.A. & Greiner, W. Significance of temperature measurements in relativistic nuclear collisions. Z Physik A 303, 259–266 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01421522

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