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Inhomogeneous freeze-out in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

A. Dumitru, L. Portugal, D. Zschiesche

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0511084

Abstract

A QCD phase transition may reflect in a inhomogeneous decoupling surface of hadrons produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We show that due to the non-linear dependence of the particle densities on the temperature and baryon-chemical potential such inhomogeneities should be visible even in the integrated, inclusive abundances. We analyze experimental data from Pb+Pb collisions at CERN-SPS and Au+Au collisions at BNL-RHIC to determine the amplitude of inhomogeneities.

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