Regeneration of Anti-Protons in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Abstract

The production and annihilation of antiprotons in the hadronic phase of heavy-ion collisions is evaluated within a thermal equilibrium approach. It is shown that the inverse reaction of $p\bar{p}$ annihilation (i.e., multi-pion annihilation $N_{\pi }\pi \to p\bar{p}$ with $N_{\pi }\simeq$~5-7) in connection with oversaturation of pion phase space (i.e., finite pion chemical potentials) plays an important role in understanding the observed antiproton yields at SpS energies within the standard picture of subsequent chemical and thermal freezeout. Implications for RHIC energies are also addressed.

arXiv comment4 pages ReVTeX incl. 4 ps-figs and espcrc1.sty, contribution to the proceedings of Quark Matter 2001

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