Resonances at RHIC

Abstract

In this report, we discuss the measurement of the hadronic decay modes of resonances in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, emphasizing on RHIC results. The study of resonances can provide: (1) the yield and spectra of more particles with different properties to study whether the system is in thermal equilibrium; (2) an independent probe of the time evolution of the source from chemical to kinetic freeze-out and detailed information on hadronic interaction at later stage; (3) the study of medium effects at late stages of the collisions; (4) a measurement of flavor and baryon/meson dependence of particle production at intermediate $p_T$ ($>2$ GeV/$c$).

10 pages, 8 figures. proceedings of Strange Quarks in Matter (SQM2003), Atlantic Beach, USA, to be published in J. Phys. G

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