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Download or read book From Pion Production to the Nuclear Matter Equation of State written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equilibrium rate calculations are used to show that thermal and chemical equilibrium are approached during the high density stage in central nucleus-nucleus collisions. The total pion multiplicity is established as a probe of the high density stage. The observed pion multiplicities are compared to predictions of a hadrochemical model with Rankine-Hugoniot compression. Assuming a partition of the internal energy per nucleon into thermal and compressional energy fractions, a nuclear matter equation of state is found which is very similar to that derived using an independent intranuclear cascade approach. 20 references.