Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8187604 Physics Letters B 2013 4 Pages PDF
Abstract
We argue that known systematics of hadron cross sections may cause different particles to freeze out of the fireball produced in heavy-ion collisions at different times. We find that a simple model with two freezeout points is a better description of data than that with a single freezeout, while still remaining predictive. The resulting fits seem to present constraints on the late stage evolution of the fireball, including the tantalizing possibility that the QCD chiral transition influences the yields at S=2700GeV and the QCD critical point those at S=17.3GeV.
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