From: Ramiro Debbe (debbe@sgs1.hirg.bnl.gov)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 18:30:57 EDT
I have some comments about our ratios and their comparison to Braun-Munzinger et al (Ref [11]) : We say that the "near constancy of temperature for chemical freeze-out.... can be associated with a fixed deconfinement transition temperature....". I would say that at RHIC , the initial energy density is higher, the deconfined partonic system can be characterized by a higher temperature and remains partonic for a longer time. But what is really remarkable is the fact that the thermodynamical approach to the process of hadronization is succesful in e+ e-, pp, and p-pbar at high energies. And the chemical freeze-out temperature of those systems is always (within errors) 170 MeV. It looks like the common factor is the hadronization process modulo initial state differences between different rapidities. Ramiro
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