https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713801014
Thermal model for small systems
1 UCT-CERN Research Centre and Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
2 Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
3 Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
4 Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wrocław, Pl-45204 Wrocław, Poland
5 ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany
6 Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
7 Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
** e-mail: jean.cleymasn@uct.ac.za
*** e-mail: hippolyt@in2p3.fr
**** e-mail: h.oeschler@gsi.de
† e-mail: krzysztof.redlich@ift.uni.wroc.pl
‡ e-mail: Natasha.Sharma@cern.ch
Published online: 27 March 2017
An analysis is presented of the expectations for particle production in collisions of small nuclei using the thermal model. The maxima observed in particle ratios of strange particles to pions as a function of beam energy in heavy ion collisions, are reduced when considering smaller nuclei. Of particular interest is the Λ/π+ ratio which shows a strong maximum surviving even in collisions of small nuclei.
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