Acta Physica Polonica B

Vol. 35, No. 1, January 2004, page 207


Statistical Hadronization and Microcanonical Ensemble

F. Becattini, L. Ferroni

We present a Monte Carlo calculation of the microcanonical ensemble of the of the ideal hadron-resonance gas including all known states up to a mass of 1.8 GeV, taking into account quantum statistics. The computing method is a development of a previous one based on a Metropolis Monte Carlo algorithm, with a the grand-canonical limit of the multi-species multiplicity distribution as proposal matrix. The microcanonical average multiplicities of the various hadron species are found to converge to the canonical ones for moderately low values of the total energy. This algorithm opens the way for event generators based for the statistical hadronization model.

PACS numbers: 12.40.Ee, 05.30.-d


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