From: Murray, Michael J (mjmurray@ku.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 08:32:55 EDT
Dear Flemming, Steve and Ian, Here is my draft abstract for QM04. Michael Rapidity Depdendence of the Temperature and Chemical Potential It is common to describe the particle abundances of from heavy ion collisions in terms of thermal fits. Normally this is done using 4pi yields but recently thermal models have been applied to data from narrow regions around y=0. The wide rapidity dependence of BRAHMS data allows us to test if AuAu collisions are in global thermal equilibrium of if there are a range of sources at different rapidities each of which is in local thermal equilibrium. We do this by search through a grid of thermal parameters to find the best fit to our particle ratios at a given rapidity. We will also compare these results to lower energy work and results from lighter systems.
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