Strangeness and Particle Freeze-out in Nuclear Collisions at 14.6 Gev a

Abstract

We study the chemical conditions at freeze-out associated with the production of strange-particles in Si-Au collisions at 14.6 GeV A. We obtain freeze-out chemical potentials and temperature, and determine the entropy as well as the final particle abundance. We also consider in detail the alternative evolution scenarios involving the hadronic gas and the deconfined phase.

Comments: 12 pages, LaTeX, 3 postscript figures