Abstract
The equilibration of hot and dense nuclear matter produced in the central cell of central Au+Au collisions at is studied within a microscopic transport model. The pressure in the cell becomes isotropic at after beginning of the collision. Within the next the expansion of matter in the cell proceeds almost isentropically with the entropy per baryon ratio and the equation of state in the plane has a very simple form, Comparison with the statistical model of an ideal hadron gas indicates that the time may be too short to reach the fully equilibrated state. Particularly, the creation of long-lived resonance-rich matter in the cell decelerates the relaxation to chemical equilibrium. This resonance-abundant state can be detected experimentally after the thermal freeze out of particles.
- Received 6 September 2000
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.63.064902
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