Strangeness conservation constraints in hadron gas models
- Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221005 (India)
We examine the implications of the constraints arising due to strangeness conservation on the strangeness production in various existing thermal hadron-gas models. The dependence of strangeness chemical potential {mu}{sub {ital S}} on the baryon chemical potential {mu}{sub {ital B}} and temperature {ital T} is investigated. The incorporation of finite-size, hard-core, repulsive interactions in the thermodynamically consistent description of hot and dense hadron gas alters the results obtained for pointlike particles. We compare results in two extreme alternative cases: (1) {ital K} and {ital K}{sup {asterisk}} mesons are treated as point particles and they can penetrate all volumes occupied by baryons and antibaryons and (2) the volume occupied by the baryons and antibaryons is not accessible to them. We find that the results indeed depend on the assumptions made. Moreover, the anomalous results obtained for the ratios {bar {Xi}}/{Xi} and {bar {Lambda}}/{Lambda} rule out the second possibility. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}
- OSTI ID:
- 285265
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, C, Vol. 53, Issue 5; Other Information: PBD: May 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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