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    "abstract": "We address the issue of the degree of equilibrium achieved in a high energy\nheavy-ion collision. Specifically, we explore the consequences of incomplete\nstrangeness chemical equilibrium. This is achieved over a volume V of the order\nof the strangeness correlation length and is assumed to be smaller than the\nfreeze-out volume. Probability distributions of strange hadrons emanating from\nthe system are computed for varying sizes of V and simple experimental\nobservables based on these are proposed. Measurements of such observables may\nbe used to estimate V and as a result the degree of strangeness chemical\nequilibration achieved. This sets a lower bound on the degree of kinetic\nequilibrium. We also point out that a determination of two-body correlations or\nsecond moments of the distributions are not sufficient for this estimation.",
    "arxiv_id": "nucl-th/0305047",
    "authors": [
      "A. Majumder",
      "V. Koch"
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      "hep-ph",
      "nucl-ex"
    ],
    "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevC.68.044903",
    "journal_ref": "Phys.Rev.C68:044903,2003",
    "title": "The chemical equilibration volume: measuring the degree of   thermalization",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0305047"
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