Publications (142)
Hadron Resonance Mass Spectrum and Lattice QCD Thermodynamics
F. Karsch, K. Redlich, A. Tawfik
We confront lattice QCD results on the transition from the hadronic phase to the quark--gluon plasma with hadron resonance gas and percolation models. We argue that for T < T_c the…
Strangeness enhancement and Energy dependence in Heavy Ion Collisions
K. Redlich, A. Tounsi
The canonical statistical model analysis of strange and multistrange hadron production in central A-A relative to p-p/p-A collisions is presented over the energy range from $\sqrt…
Hadron yields, the chemical freeze-out and the QCD phase diagram
A. Andronic, P. Braun-Munzinger, K. Redlich +1
We present the status of the chemical freeze-out, determined from fits of hadron yields with the statistical hadronization (thermal) model, with focus on the data at the LHC. A des…
Charmonium and open charm production in nuclear collisions at SPS/FAIR energies and the possible influence of a hot hadronic medium
A. Andronic, P. Braun-Munzinger, K. Redlich +1
We provide predictions for charmonium and open charm production in nuclear collisions at SPS/FAIR energies within the framework of the statistical hadronization model. The increasi…
Particle Production in p-p and Heavy Ion Collisions at Ultrarelativistic Energies
J. Cleymans, S. Kabana, I. Kraus +3
Recent results related to the chemical equilibration of hadrons in the final state of p-p and heavy ion collisions are reviewed.
Chiral condensate and chemical freeze-out
D. B. Blaschke, J. Berdermann, J. Cleymans +1
We consider a chemical freeze-out mechanism which is based on a strong medium dependence of the rates for inelastic flavor-equilibrating collisions based on the delocalization of h…
Conservation Laws and Particle Production in Heavy Ion Collisions
K. Redlich, J. Cleymans, H. Oeschler +1
We discuss the role of the conservation laws related with U(1) internal symmetry group in the statistical model description of particle productions in ultrarelativistic heavy ion c…
Evidence for charmonium generation at the phase boundary in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions
A. Andronic, P. Braun-Munzinger, K. Redlich +1
We investigate the transition from suppression to enhancement of J/psi mesons produced in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions in the framework of the statistical hadronization mo…
Thermal Particle and Photon Production in Pb+Pb Collisions with Transverse Flow
J. Cleymans, K. Redlich, D. Srivastava
Particle and photon production is analyzed in the presence of transverse flow using two approximations to describe the properties of the hadronic medium, one containing only $Ï, Ï…
Fluctuations in the vicinity of the phase transition line for two flavor QCD
S. Ejiri, C. R. Allton, M. Doering +5
We study the susceptibilities of quark number, isospin number and electric charge in numerical simulations of lattice QCD at high temperature and density. We discuss the equation o…
Scaling Properties of the Energy Density in SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory
J. Engels, F. Karsch, K. Redlich
The lattice data for the energy density of gauge theory are calculated with \nop~derivatives of the coupling constants. These derivatives are obtained from two sources : i)…
Shear and bulk viscosities of the gluon plasma in a quasiparticle description
M. Bluhm, B. Kampfer, K. Redlich
Shear and bulk viscosities of deconfined gluonic matter are investigated within an effective kinetic theory by describing the strongly interacting medium phenomenologically in term…
The Thermal Model and the Transition from Baryonic to Mesonic Freeze-Out
J. Cleymans, H. Oeschler, K. Redlich +1
The present status of the thermal model is reviewed and the recently discovered sharp peak in the ratio is discussed in this framework. It is shown that the rapid change…
Statistical Model Predictions for Particle Ratios at sqrt(s_NN) = 5.5 TeV
J. Cleymans, I. Kraus, H. Oeschler +2
Particle production in central Pb-Pb collisions at LHC is discussed in the context of the Statistical Model. Predictions of various particle ratios are presented with the correspon…
The Statistical Model of Hadrogenesis in A--A collisions from AGS to SPS and RHIC
K. Redlich
We discuss experimental data on particle yields and particle spectra obtained in heavy ion collisions in a very broad energy range from SIS/GSI through AGS/BNL up to SPS/CERN and R…
Chiral condensate and Mott-Anderson freeze-out
D. Blaschke, J. Berdermann, J. Cleymans +1
We present the idea of a Mott-Anderson freeze-out that suggests a key role of the localization of the hadron wave functions when traversing the hadronization transition. The extens…
Statistical Model and the mesonic-baryonic transition region
H. Oeschler, J. Cleymans, K. Redlich +1
The statistical model assuming chemical equilibriumand local strangeness conservation describes most of the observed features of strange particle production from SIS up to RHIC. De…
Strange Particle Production from SIS to LHC
H. Oeschler, J. Cleymans, K. Redlich
>1A review of meson emission in heavy ion collisions at incident energies from SIS up to collider energies is presented. A statistical model assuming chemical equilibrium and local…
Transition from Baryon- to Meson-Dominated Freeze Out -- Early Decoupling around 30 A GeV?
H. Oeschler, J. Cleymans, K. Redlich +1
The recently discovered sharp peak in the excitation function of the K+/pi+ ratio around 30 A GeV in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is discussed in the framework of the Statisti…
Dynamical interpretation of chemical freeze-out in heavy ion collisions
V. D. Toneev, J. Cleymans, E. G. Nikonov +3
It is demonstrated that there exists a direct correlation between chemical freeze-out point and the softest point of the equation of state where the pressure divided by the energy…
Thermal Dileptons as a Possible Source of the Soft Dilepton Enhancement Measured in A-A Collisions at SPS Energies
R. Baier, M. Dirks, K. Redlich
The production of soft dileptons in a thermal mesonic medium is discussed in the context of recent CERN experimental data reported by the CERES Collaboration. We do not intend to g…
Dynamical screening in hot systems away from (chemical) equilibrium
R. Baier, M. Dirks, K. Redlich
Within the Closed Time Path Formalism of Thermal Field Theory we calculate the hard photon emission rate as well as the collisional energy-loss rate for a quark-gluon plasma away f…
Charge fluctuations in chiral models and the QCD phase transition
V. Skokov, B. Friman, F. Karsch +1
We consider the Polyakov loop-extended two flavor chiral quark--meson model and discuss critical phenomena related with the spontaneous breaking of the chiral symmetry. The model i…
Photon Physics in Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC
F. Arleo, P. Aurenche, F. Bopp +32
Various pion and photon production mechanisms in high-energy nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC are discussed. Comparison with RHIC data is done whenever possible. The prospect of…
The Horn and the Thermal Model
J. Cleymans, H. Oeschler, K. Redlich +1
The recently discovered sharp peak in the K+/pi+ ratio in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is discussed in the framework of the thermal model. In this model a rapid change is expe…
Transition from a quark-gluon plasma in the presence of a sharp front
N. Bilic, J. Cleymans, K. Redlich +1
The effect of a sharp front separating the quark-gluon plasma phase from the hadronic phase is investigated. Energy-momentum conservation and baryon number conservation constrain t…
Hadronic fluctuations at the QCD phase transition
S. Ejiri, F. Karsch, K. Redlich
We discuss the properties of hadronic fluctuations, i.e. fluctuations of net quark and isospin numbers as well as electric charge, in the vicinity of the QCD transition in isospin-…
Thermal Model Description of Collisions of Small Nuclei
H. Oeschler, J. Cleymans, B. Hippolyte +2
The dependence of particle production on the size of the colliding nuclei is analysed in terms of the thermal model using the canonical ensemble. The concept of strangeness correla…
Statistical hadronization of charm: from FAIR to the LHC
A. Andronic, P. Braun-Munzinger, K. Redlich +1
We discuss the production of charmonium in nuclear collisions within the framework of the statistical hadronization model. We demonstrate that the model reproduces very well the av…
Statistical hadronization of charm at SPS, RHIC and LHC
A. Andronic, P. Braun-Munzinger, K. Redlich +1
We study the production of charmonia and charmed hadrons for nucleus-nucleus collisions at SPS, RHIC, and LHC energies within the framework of the statistical hadronization model.…
Viscosities of the quasigluon plasma
M. Bluhm, B. Kampfer, K. Redlich
We investigate bulk and shear viscosities of the gluon plasma within relaxation time approximation to an effective Boltzmann-Vlasov type kinetic theory by viewing the plasma as des…
Transport coefficients near chiral phase transition
C. Sasaki, K. Redlich
We analyze the transport properties of relativistic fluid composed of constituent quarks at finite temperature and density. We focus on the shear and bulk viscosities and study the…
Probability distributions in statistical ensembles with conserved charges
J. Cleymans, K. Redlich, L. Turko
The probability distributions for charged particle numbers and their densities are derived in statistical ensembles with conservation laws. It is shown that if this limit is proper…
Probing Hadronization with Strangeness
S. A. Bass, M. Bleicher, J. Aichelin +5
The Omega-bar/Omega ratio originating from string decays is predicted to be larger than unity in proton-proton interaction at SPS energies. The anti-omega dominance increases with…
QCD phase diagram and charge fluctuations
K. Redlich, B. Friman, C. Sasaki
We discuss the phase structure and fluctuations of conserved charges in two flavor QCD. The importance of the density fluctuations to probe the existence of the critical end point…
Density Fluctuations as Signature of a Non--Equilibrium First Order Phase Transition
C. Sasaki, B. Friman, K. Redlich
We show that in the presence of spinodal instabilities which develop at a first order phase transition, the fluctuations of conserved charges can be as strong as those at the criti…
Hadron Properties just before Deconfinement
G. Boyd, Sourendu Gupta, F. Karsch +3
We have investigated hadron screening masses, the chiral condensate, and the pion decay constant close to the deconfinement phase transition in the confined phase of QCD. The simul…
Thermal photon production rate from non-equilibrium quantum field theory
R. Baier, M. Dirks, K. Redlich +1
In the framework of closed time path thermal field theory we investigate the production rate of hard thermal photons from a QCD plasma away from equilibrium. Dynamical screening pr…
Dynamical Interpretation of Chemical Freeze-Out Parameters
V. D. Toneev, J. Cleymans, E. G. Nikonov +2
It is shown that the condition for chemical freeze-out, average energy per hadron approximately 1 GeV, selects the softest point of the equation of state, namely the point where th…
Antimatter production in proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies
J. Cleymans, S. Kabana, I. Kraus +3
One of the striking features of particle production at high beam energies is the near equal abundance of matter and antimatter in the central rapidity region. In this paper we stud…
The renormalization group and quark number fluctuations in the Polyakov loop extended quark-meson model at finite baryon density
V. Skokov, B. Friman, K. Redlich
Thermodynamics and the phase structure of the Polyakov loop-extended two flavors chiral quark--meson (PQM) model is explored beyond the mean-field approximation. The analysis of th…
Secondary Charmonium Production at LHC Energy
P. Braun-Munzinger, K. Redlich
We consider the production of charmonium by annihilation during the mixed and hadronic phase of Pb-Pb collision at LHC energy. The calculations for secondary and $…
Statistical hadronization of heavy quarks in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions
A. Andronic, P. Braun-Munzinger, K. Redlich +1
We present new results on the statistical hadronization of heavy quarks at SPS, RHIC and LHC energies. Several new aspects are considered, among them a separation of the collision…
Decoding the phase structure of QCD via particle production at high energy
A. Andronic, P. Braun-Munzinger, K. Redlich +1
Recent studies based on non-perturbative lattice Monte-Carlo solutions of Quantum Chromodynamics, the theory of strong interactions, demonstrated that at high temperature there is…
Bulk viscosity in quasi particle models
C. Sasaki, K. Redlich
We discuss transport properties of dynamical fluid composed of quasi-particles whose masses depend on temperature and charge chemical potentials. Based on the relativistic kinetic…
Kinetic Equation for Gluons in the Background Gauge of QCD
Q. Wang, K. Redlich, H. Stöcker +1
We derive the quantum kinetic equation for a pure gluon plasma, applying the background field and closed-time-path method. The derivation is more general and transparent than earli…
A next-generation LHC heavy-ion experiment
D. Adamová, G. Aglieri Rinella, M. Agnello +395
The present document discusses plans for a compact, next-generation multi-purpose detector at the LHC as a follow-up to the present ALICE experiment. The aim is to build a nearly m…
Confronting fluctuations of conserved charges in central nuclear collisions at the LHC with predictions from Lattice QCD
P. Braun-Munzinger, A. Kalweit, K. Redlich +1
We construct net baryon number and strangeness susceptibilities as well as correlations between electric charge, strangeness and baryon number from experimental data on the particl…
Volume fluctuations and higher order cumulants of the net baryon number
V. Skokov, B. Friman, K. Redlich
We consider the effect of volume fluctuations on cumulants of the net baryon number. Based on a general formalism, we derive universal expressions for the net baryon number cumulan…
Statistical production of antikaon nuclear bound states in heavy ion collisions
A. Andronic, P. Braun-Munzinger, K. Redlich
Recently it was conjectured that the strongly attractive antikaon--nucleon potential can result in the formation of antikaon nuclear bound states. We discuss the formation of such…
Maximum Relative Strangeness Content in Heavy Ion Collisions Around 30 A.GeV
P. Braun-Munzinger, J. Cleymans, H. Oeschler +1
It is shown that the ratio of strange to non-strange particle production in relativistic heavy ion collisions is expected to reach a maximum at beam energies around 30 A.GeV in the…
Comparison of Chemical Freeze-Out Criteria in Heavy-Ion Collisions
J. Cleymans, H. Oeschler, K. Redlich +1
One of the most remarkable results to emerge from heavy-ion collisions over the past two decades is the striking regularity shown by particle yields at all energies. This has led t…
Chiral phase transition in the presence of spinodal decomposition
C. Sasaki, B. Friman, K. Redlich
The thermodynamics of a first order chiral phase transition is considered in the presence of spinodal phase separation within the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model. The properties of…
Photoproduction constraints on J/psi-nucleon interactions
K. Redlich, H. Satz, G. M. Zinovjev
Using J/psi and open charm photoproduction data, we apply the vector meson dominance model to obtain constraints on the energy dependence of the inelastic J/psi-nucleon cross secti…
Thermodynamic limit and semi--intensive quantities
J. Cleymans, K. Redlich, L. Turko
The properties of statistical ensembles with abelian charges close to the thermodynamic limit are discussed. The finite volume corrections to the probability distributions and part…
Strangeness Excitation Functions and Transition from Baryonic to Mesonic Freeze-Out
J. Cleymans, H. Oeschler, K. Redlich +1
The sharp peak in the K+/pi+ ratio in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is discussed in the framework of the Statistical Model. In this model a rapid change is expected as the hadr…
Transition from Baryonic to Mesonic Freeze-Out
J. Cleymans, H. Oeschler, K. Redlich +1
The recently discovered sharp peak in the K+/pi+ ratio is discussed in the framework of the statistical model. In this model a rapid change is expected as the hadronic gas undergoe…
Influence of the Landau-Pomeranchuk Effect on Lepton-Pair Production
J. Cleymans, V. V. Goloviznin, K. Redlich
An estimate is made of the Landau-Pomeranchuk effect on the production of dileptons in a hadronic gas and in a quark-gluon plasma. For low mass dilepton pairs this effect reduces t…
Lattice QCD Constraints on the Nuclear Equation of State
A. S. Khvorostukhin, V. V. Skokov, V. D. Toneev +1
Based on the quasi-particle description of the QCD medium at finite temperature and density we formulate the phenomenological model for the equation of state that exhibits crossove…
Dynamical screening away from equilibrium: hard photon production and collisional energy loss
R. Baier, M. Dirks, K. Redlich
We investigate the production rate for hard real photons and the collisional energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma away from chemical equilibrium. Applying the Hard-Thermal-Loop re…
The QCD equation of state for two flavours at non-zero chemical potential
S. Ejiri, C. R. Allton, M. Döring +5
We present results of a simulation of 2 flavour QCD on a lattice using p4-improved staggered fermions with bare quark mass . Derivatives of the thermodynamic…
Status of Chemical Freeze-Out
J. Cleymans, H. Oeschler, K. Redlich +1
The status of the energy dependence of the chemical freeze-out temperature and chemical potential obtained in heavy ion collisions is presented. Recent proposals for chemical freez…
Unified Description of Freeze-Out Parameters in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
J. Cleymans, K. Redlich
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 per hadron in the local rest frame…
Statistical hadronization: successes and some open issues
A. Andronic, P. Braun-Munzinger, K. Redlich +1
Hadron production in relativistic nuclear collisions is well described in the framework of the statistical hadronization model, over a broad range of collision energies. We outline…
Chemical Equilibrium in Collisions of Small Systems
I. Kraus, J. Cleymans, H. Oeschler +2
The system-size dependence of particle production in heavy-ion collisions at the top SPS energy is analyzed in terms of the statistical model. A systematic comparison is made of tw…
Charge Fluctuations along the QCD phase boundary
K. Redlich, B. Friman, C. Sasaki
We discuss the properties of the net--quark and isovector fluctuations along the chiral phase transition line in the plane spanned by temperature and baryon chemical potential. Our…
Photon and Dilepton Production from Hot Out-Off-Equilibrium Media
R. Baier, M. Dirks, K. Redlich
The electromagnetic emissivity from QCD media away from equilibrium is studied in the framework of closed time path thermal field theory. For the dilepton rate a nonequilibrium mes…
Inclusive J/psi production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV
ALICE Collaboration, B. Abelev, J. Adam +966
The ALICE Collaboration has measured inclusive J/psi production in pp collisions at a center of mass energy sqrt(s)=2.76 TeV at the LHC. The results presented in this Letter refer…
Quark Number Fluctuations in a Chiral Model at Finite Baryon Chemical Potential
C. Sasaki, B. Friman, K. Redlich
We discuss the net quark and isovector fluctuations as well as off-diagonal quark flavor susceptibilities along the chiral phase transition line in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (NJL) mo…
What Can We Learn from Transverse Momentum Spectra in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions?
Jan-e Alam, J. Cleymans, K. Redlich +1
We compare the predictions of different models for transverse momentum spectra in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Particular emphasis is given to hydrodynamic flow with differen…
Transport Coefficients in Gluodynamics: From Weak Coupling towards the Deconfinement Transition
M. Bluhm, B. Kampfer, K. Redlich
We study the ratio of bulk to shear viscosity in gluodynamics within a phenomenological quasiparticle model. We show that at large temperatures this ratio exhibits a quadratic depe…
Heavy ion collisions and lattice QCD at finite baryon density
K. Redlich, F. Karsch, A. Tawfik
We discuss a relation between the QCD thermodynamics obtained from a statistical analysis of particle production in heavy ion collisions at SPS and RHIC energies and recent LGT res…
Experimental exploration of the QCD phase diagram
A. Andronic, P. Braun-Munzinger, K. Redlich +1
The different phases of strongly interacting matter are governed by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). At high temperature and/or density a deconfined, chirally symmetric phase of quark…
From the Dyson-Schwinger to the Transport Equation in the Background Field Gauge of QCD
Q. Wang, K. Redlich, H. Stöcker +1
The non-equilibrium quantum field dynamics is usually described in the closed-time-path formalism. The initial state correlations are introduced into the generating functional by n…
Fluctuations and isentropes near the chiral critical endpoint
E. Nakano, B. -J. Schaefer, B. Stokic +2
Isentropic trajectories crossing the chiral phase transition near the critical endpoint (CEP) are studied for two light quark flavors. The calculations are performed within an effe…
Particle production in p-p collisions and prediction for LHC energy
I. Kraus, J. Cleymans, H. Oeschler +1
We analyze recent data on particle production yields obtained in p-p collisions at SPS and RHIC energies within the statistical model. We apply the model formulated in the canonica…
Quarkyonic Matter and Chiral Symmetry Breaking
L. McLerran, K. Redlich, C. Sasaki
The appearance of a new phase of QCD, Quarkyonic Matter in the limit of large number of colors is studied within Nambu-Jona-Lassinio effective chiral model coupled to the Polyakov…
Statistical hadronization of b-quarks in Pb-Pb collisions at LHC energy: a case for partial equilibration of b-quarks?
A. Andronic, P. Braun-Munzinger, K. Redlich +1
Predictions are presented within the framework of the statistical hadronization model for integrated yields of bottomonia in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC. We investigate the central…
Particle Ratios at CERN, BNL and GSI : Unified Description of Freeze-Out Parameters
J. Cleymans, K. Redlich
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.
The thermal model on the verge of the ultimate test: particle production in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC
A. Andronic, P. Braun-Munzinger, K. Redlich +1
We investigate the production of hadrons in nuclear collisions within the framework of the thermal (or statistical hadronization) model. We discuss both the ligh-quark hadrons as w…
Meson fluctuations and thermodynamics of the Polyakov loop extended quark-meson model
V. Skokov, B. Stokic, B. Friman +1
Thermodynamics and the phase structure of the Polyakov loop-extended two flavor chiral quark-meson model (PQM) are explored. The analysis of the PQM model is based on the functiona…
Prospects for Strangeness Production in pp Collisions at LHC
I. Kraus, J. Cleymans, H. Oeschler +1
Prospects for strangeness production in pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are discussed within the statistical model. Firstly, the system size and the energy depende…
Particle Production in Heavy Ion Collisions
P. Braun-Munzinger, K. Redlich, J. Stachel
The status of thermal model descriptions of particle production in heavy ion collisions is presented. We discuss the formulation of statistical models with different implementation…
Strangeness Production in Nuclear Matter and Expansion Dynamics
V. D. Toneev, E. G. Nikonov, B. Friman +2
Thermodynamical properties of hot and dense nuclear matter are analyzed and compared for different equation of state (EoS). It is argued that the softest point of the equation of s…
Vacuum fluctuations and the thermodynamics of chiral models
V. Skokov, B. Friman, E. Nakano +2
We consider the thermodynamics of chiral models in the mean-field approximation and discuss the relevance of the (frequently omitted) fermion vacuum loop. Within the chiral quark-m…
Thermal description of hadron production in e+e- collisions revisited
A. Andronic, F. Beutler, P. Braun-Munzinger +2
We present a comprehensive analysis of hadron production in e+e- collisions at different center-of-mass energies in the framework of the statistical model of the hadron resonance g…
Chemical and Thermal Freeze-Out Parameters from 1 to 200 A.GeV
J. Cleymans, K. Redlich
The present knowledge about hadrons produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions is compatible with chemical freeze-out happening when the energy density divided by the particle d…
Chemical equilibration of U(1) charged particles in a thermal environment
K. Redlich, V. Koch, A. Tounsi
We discuss chemical equilibration of particles carrying non-vanishing quantum numbers related with U(1) internal symmetry. We construct the transport equation for the time evolutio…
Statistical Model Predictions for Pb-Pb Collisions at LHC
I. Kraus, J. Cleymans, H. Oeschler +2
The systematics of Statistical Model parameters extracted from heavy-ion collisions at lower energies are exploited to extrapolate in the LHC regime. Predictions of various particl…
Hard-thermal-loop resummed pressure of a degenerate quark-gluon plasma
R. Baier, K. Redlich
We compute the pressure of a finite density quark-gluon plasma at zero temperature to leading order in hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory, which includes the fermionic excitatio…
Density fluctuations and a first-order chiral phase transition in non-equilibrium
C. Sasaki, B. Friman, K. Redlich
The thermodynamics of a first-order chiral phase transition is considered in the presence of spinodal phase separation using the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model in the mean field approxim…
Non-perturbative dynamics and charge fluctuations in effective chiral models
V. Skokov, B. Friman, K. Redlich
We discuss the properties of fluctuations of the electric charge in the vicinity of the chiral crossover transition within effective chiral models at finite temperature and vanishi…
Thermal Dileptons from pi - rho Interactions in a Hot Pion Gas
R. Baier, M. Dirks, K. Redlich
A systematic study of low mass dilepton production from interactions in a hot medium is presented. Applying finite temperature perturbation theory the dilepton rate, respec…
Exploring the QCD phase structure with density fluctuations
C. Sasaki, B. Friman, K. Redlich
We briefly summarize the properties of conserved charge fluctuations as a sensitive probe for the QCD phase transitions. We discuss the density fluctuations which play a significan…
Net-proton probability distribution in heavy ion collisions
P. Braun-Munzinger, B. Friman, F. Karsch +2
We compute net-proton probability distributions in heavy ion collisions within the hadron resonance gas model. The model results are compared with data taken by the STAR Collaborat…
Density fluctuations in the presence of spinodal instabilities
C. Sasaki, B. Friman, K. Redlich
Density fluctuations resulting from spinodal decomposition in a non-equilibrium first-order chiral phase transition are explored. We show that such instabilities generate divergent…
On the chemical equilibration of strangeness-exchange reaction in heavy-ion collisions
J. Cleymans, A. Foerster, H. Oeschler +2
The strangeness-exchange reaction pi + Y -> K- + N is shown to be the dynamical origin of chemical equilibration for K- production in heavy-ion collisions up to beam energies of 10…
Particle ratios at SPS, AGS and SIS
J. Cleymans, H. Oeschler, K. Redlich
Ratios of integrated particle yields provide the best method for determining the temperature and the chemical potential. The chemical freeze-out parameters obtained at CERN/SPS, BN…
Common Features of Particle Multiplicities in Heavy Ion Collisions
F. Becattini, J. Cleymans, A. Keranen +2
Results of a systematic study of fully integrated particle multiplicities in central Au-Au and Pb-Pb collisions at beam momenta 1.7 A GeV, 11.6 A GeV (Au-Au) and 158 A GeV (Pb-Pb)…
Charmonium Production from the Secondary Collisions at LHC Energy
P. Braun-Munzinger, K. Redlich
We consider the charmonium production in thermalized hadronic medium created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at LHC energy. The calculations for the secondary and…