Non-extensive statistics effects in quark-gluon plasma and in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

The presence of memory effects and color long-range forces among the many-parton system in the early stage of heavy-ion collisions can affect the particle statistical behavior at the freeze-out temperature. In this context, we calculate, in the framework of the equilibrium generalized non-extensive thermostatistics, the shape of pion transverse mass spectrum and the value of the transverse momentum correlation function of the pions emitted during the central Pb+Pb collisions and we show that the experimental results is well reproduced assuming very small deviations from the standard statistics.

Comments: 4 pages, contribution to the proceedings of the International Conference on Quark Nuclear Physics (Adelaide, February 21-25, 2000)