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Pion suppression in nuclear collisions

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The pion multiplicity per participating nucleon in central nucleus-nucleus collisions at the energies 2-15 A-GeV is significantly smaller than in nucleon-nucleon interactions at the same collision energy. This effect of pion suppression is argued to appear due to the evolution of the system produced at the early stage of heavy-ion collisions towards a local thermodynamic equilibrium and further isentropic expansion.

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  1. Institut für Kernphysik, Universität Frankfurt, August-Euler-Strasse 6, D-60486, Frankfurt, Germany

    Marek Gaździcki

  2. Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, UK-252143, Kiev, Ukraine

    Mark I. Gorenstein

  3. Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, ul. Hoża 69, PL-00-681, Warsaw, Poland

    Stanislaw Mrówczyński

  4. Institute of Physics, Pedagogical University, ul. Lesna 16, PL-25-509, Kielce, Poland

    Stanislaw Mrówczyński

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Gaździcki, M., Gorenstein, M.I. & Mrówczyński, S. Pion suppression in nuclear collisions. Eur. Phys. J. C 5, 129–133 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100529800830

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