Statistical picture of high energy nuclear collisions
- 1 August 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review C
- Vol. 20 (2), 773-780
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.20.773
Abstract
We discuss nuclear reactions induced by nucleons or heavy ions at incident energies in the range of 0.5 to 1 GeV/nucleon. One-particle spectra and the correlations of two nucleons emitted are studied in the statistical limit: Subgroups of nucleons acquire a random occupation of their available phase space. As opposed to the thermal limit the finite number of nucleons gives rise to sizable correlations among the nucleons via the conservation laws. A surprising reproduction of the observed spectra—in particular at high momentum transfers (as in proton backward scattering)—is achieved by the model.Keywords
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