Elsevier

Nuclear Physics A

Volume 566, 3 January 1994, Pages 403-406
Nuclear Physics A

How fast is equilibration in hot hadronic matter?

https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9474(94)90655-6Get rights and content

Abstract

We study various non-equilibrium properties of a mixture comprised of pions, kaons and nucleons. The concentration of the constituents is chosen to mimic those expected in the mid-rapidity interval of CERN and RHIC experiments. The heavier kaons and nucleons are found to equilibrate more slowly than pions. These results shed new light on the influence of collective flow effects on the transverse momentum distributions of kaons and nucleons versus those of pions in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions.

References (5)

  • Quark Matter 91

    Nucl. Phys.

    (1992)
  • M. Prakash et al.

    Phys. Rev. Lett.

    (1993)

    Phys. Rep.

    (1993)
There are more references available in the full text version of this article.

Cited by (2)

This work was supported in part by the Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-PG02-88ER40388 at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

View full text