From p+p to Pb+Pb Collisions: Wounded Nucleon versus Statistical Models

Abstract

System size dependence of hadron production properties is discussed within the Wounded Nucleon Model and the Statistical Model in the grand canonical, canonical and micro-canonical formulations. Similarities and differences between predictions of the models related to the treatment of conservation laws are exposed. A need for models which would combine a hydrodynamical-like expansion with conservation laws obeyed in individual collisions is stressed.