An introduction to the Statistical Hadronization Model

Abstract

In these lectures I review the foundations and the applications of the statistical hadronization model to elementary and relativistic heavy ion collisions. The role of strangeness production and the general interpretation of results is addressed.

Lectures given at the 4th edition of the school "Quark-Gluon Plasma and Heavy Ion Collisions : past, present, future", Torino (Italy), 8-14 December 2008

References in corpus (6)

• Measurements of $\varphi$ meson production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC
• The Thermal Production of Strange and Non-Strange Hadrons in e+e- Collisions
• Chemical freeze-out in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions at sqrt(s)_NN = 130 and 200 GeV
• Centrality dependence of strangeness production in heavy-ion collisions as a geometrical effect of core-corona superposition
• Inclusive Spectra and Quantum Stochastic Processes
• Strangeness Saturation: Energy- and System-Size Dependence

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• Thermal-FIST: A package for heavy-ion collisions and hadronic equation of state
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• A comparative analysis of statistical hadron production
• Bulk Viscosity and Cavitation in Boost-Invariant Hydrodynamic Expansion
• Centrality dependence of hadronization and chemical freeze-out conditions in heavy ion collisions at \sqrt s_{NN} = 2.76 TeV
• Thermal radiation and entanglement in proton-proton collisions at the LHC
• Hadronization conditions in relativistic nuclear collisions and the QCD pseudo-critical line
• Bayesian parameter estimation for relativistic heavy-ion collisions
• Fluctuating relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics as a gauge theory
• Statistical hadronization with exclusive channels in e+e- annihilation
• Charged-particle multiplicity dependence of charm-baryon-to-meson ratio in high-energy proton-proton collisions
• Possible interrelations among chemical freezeout conditions
• Analysis of multiplicity dependencies of midrapidity pt distributions of identified charged particles in p+p collisions at (s)1/2=7 TeV at the LHC
• Multi-strange baryon production in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions measured with ALICE at the LHC
• Strangeness enhancement and flow-like effects in $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ annihilation at high parton density
• Observation of the collective flow in proton-proton collisions
• Investigating the QCD phase diagram with hadron multiplicities at NICA
• MCSTHAR++, a Monte Carlo code for the microcanonical hadronization
• Modeling a Realistic Dynamical Model for High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions
• Hadronic Freeze-Out in A+A Collisions meets the Lattice QCD Parton-Hadron Transition Line
• Statistical Hadronization and Holography
• Multi-particle correlations in transverse momenta from statistical clusters