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Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5284–5286 (1998)

Unified Description of Freeze-Out Parameters in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

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J. Cleymans1 and K. Redlich2,3
1Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa
2Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), D-64220 Darmstadt, Germany
3Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland

Received 12 August 1998; published in the issue dated 14 December 1998

It is shown that the chemical freeze-out parameters obtained at CERN/SPS, BNL/AGS, and GSI/SIS energies all correspond to a unique value of 1 GeV for the average energy per hadron in the local rest frame of the system, independent of the beam energy and of the target and beam particles.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5284
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5284
PACS:
25.75.Dw, 12.38.Mh, 24.10.Nz, 25.75.Gz