PARTICLE RATIOS FROM CENTRAL PB+PB COLLISIONS AT THE CERN SPS

Authors
Citation
M. Kaneta, PARTICLE RATIOS FROM CENTRAL PB+PB COLLISIONS AT THE CERN SPS, Journal of physics. G, Nuclear and particle physics, 23(12), 1997, pp. 1865-1871
Citations number
21
ISSN journal
09543899
Volume
23
Issue
12
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1865 - 1871
Database
ISI
SICI code
0954-3899(1997)23:12<1865:PRFCPC>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
We will address the physics of K-/K+ and (p) over bar/p ratios measure d in 158 A GeV Pb + Pb collisions as a function of centrality and tran sverse momentum. We observe little significant centrality dependence i n neither K-/K+ nor (p) over bar/p ratios and they are almost constant as a function of P-T. In addition to the chemical freeze-out temperat ure T-ch. We extract the chemical potentials for both light and strang e quarks (mu(q) and mu(s),) by comparing the present data with simple model predictions. T-ch is greater than the thermal freeze-out tempera ture which is extracted from the transverse momentum distribution of c harged hadrons.