Statistical Ensembles With Finite Bath: A Description for an Event Generator

Abstract

A Monte Carlo event generator has been developed assuming thermal production of hadrons. The system under consideration is sampled grand canonically in the Boltzmann approximation. A re-weighting scheme is then introduced to account for conservation of charges (baryon number, strangeness, electric charge) and energy and momentum, effectively allowing for extrapolation of grand canonical results to the microcanonical limit. This method has two strong advantages compared to analytical approaches and standard microcanonical Monte Carlo techniques, in that it is capable of handling resonance decays as well as (very) large system sizes.