Hadronic Ratios and the Number of Projectile Participants. Thermal hadron production in Si-Au collisions

TL;DR

This paper explores how hadronic ratios vary with projectile participants in nuclear collisions using a thermal model, comparing results from Si-Au and Au-Au collisions to understand particle production mechanisms.

Contribution

It introduces a thermal model that accounts for exact baryon number and strangeness conservation to analyze hadronic ratios in nuclear collisions.

Findings

Hadronic ratios depend on the number of projectile participants.

Comparison shows differences between Si-Au and Au-Au collision results.

Thermal model effectively describes particle production in these collisions.

Abstract

We investigate the dependence of hadronic ratios on the number of projectile participants using a thermal model incorporating exact baryon number and strangeness conservation. A comparison is made with results from $Au-Au$ collisions obtained at the BNL-AGS.