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Particle Freeze-out and Discontinuities in Relativistic Hydrodynamics

K. A. Bugaev, M. I. Gorenstein, W. Greiner

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9906088

Abstract

Freeze-out of particles in relativistic hydrodynamics is considered across a 3-dimensional space-time hypersurface. The conservation laws for time-like parts of the freeze-out hypersurface require different values of temperature, baryonic chemical potential and flow velocity in the fluid and in the final particle spectra. We analyze this freeze-out discontinuity and its connection to the shock-wave phenomena in relativistic hydrodynamics.

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