Thermal phenomenology of hadrons from 200A GeV S+S collisions

Abstract

We develop a complete and consistent description for the hadron spectra from heavy ion collisions in terms of a few collective variables, in particular temperature, longitudinal, and transverse flow. To achieve a meaningful comparison with presently available data, we also include the resonance decays into our picture. To disentangle the influences of transverse flow and resonance decays in the mT spectra, we analyze in detail the shape of the mT spectra. © 1993 The American Physical Society.