Exact Conservation of Quantum Numbers in the Statistical Description of High Energy Particle Reactions

Abstract

Relativistic heavy ion collisions are studied taking the exact conservation of baryon number, strangeness and charge explicitly into account.

Comments: Presented at the 11th Chris Engelbrecht Summer School in Theoretical Physics, ``Hadrosynthesis and Hadrons in Dense Matter'', Cape Town 4-13 February 1998, (to be published). 14 pages, 4 figures