Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5764–5767 (1998)Evidence of Early Multistrange Hadron Freeze-Out in High Energy Nuclear CollisionsReceived 20 April 1998; published in the issue dated 28 December 1998 Recently reported transverse momentum distributions of strange hadrons produced in Pb(158AGeV) on Pb collisions and corresponding results from the relativistic quantum molecular dynamics approach are examined. We argue that the experimental observations favor a scenario in which multi-strange hadrons are formed and decouple from the system rather early at large energy densities (at about 1GeV/fm3). The systematics of the strange and nonstrange particle spectra indicate that the observed transverse flow develops mainly in the late hadronic stages of these reactions. © 1998 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5764
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5764
PACS:
25.75.Ld, 24.10.Lx, 25.75.Dw
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