Chemical Equilibration and the Hadron-QGP Phase Transition
arXiv:nucl-ex/0007021 · doi:10.1016/S0375-9474(00)00492-9
Abstract
We discuss recent experimental results on hadron multiplicities in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions. The data for central collisions are in quantitative agreement with predictions of a thermal model assuming full chemical equilibration. It is argued that this provides strong, albeit indirect, evidence for the formation of a partonic phase in the collision prior to hadron production.
Contribution to CRIS2000 conference, to be published in Nucl. Phys. A
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