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 (5)

• 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
• Strangeness Saturation: Energy- and System-Size Dependence