Thermal phenomenology of hadrons from 200 AGeV 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 $m_T$-spectra, we analyse in detail the shape of the $m_T$-spectra.

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