Eur Phys J C (2004) 33: s615-s617
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjcd/s2004-03-1704-3

PS06 High Energy Nuclear Physics

On the importance of isospin effects for the interpretation of nuclear collisions

Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, MFF UK, V Holešovičkách 2, Praha 8, Czech Republic

Received: 15 October 2003
Accepted: 9 February 2004
Published online: 26 February 2004

Abstract

It is demonstrated that many aspects of nuclear collisions, as for instance the evolution of π ⁺/π ^– and K/π ratios with x _F and , are influenced by isospin effects already present in elementary nucleon–nucleon collisions.