Statistical Bootstrap Approach to Hadronic Matter and Multiparticle Reactions

Abstract

We present the main ideas behind the statistical bootstrap model and recent developments within this model related to the description of fireball cascade decay. Mathematical methods developed in this model might be useful in other phenomenological schemes of strong interaction physics; they are described in detail. We discuss the present status of applications of the model to various hadronic reactions. When discussing the relations of the statistical bootstrap model to other models of hadron physics we point out possibly fruitful analogies and dynamical mechanisms which are modelled by the bootstrap dynamics under definite conditions. This offers interpretations for the critical temperature typical for the model and indicates further fields of application.

How We Got to QCD Matter from the Hadron Side: 1984

“…More checks with experiments were made (pp annihilation, pair production, correlations, heavy particle production, ISR secondary spectra, Ericson fluctuations [32], and so on), which cannot be reviewed here. Instead I refer to the excellent review papers by Ilgenfritz, Kripfganz, and Möhring [33] and by Tounsi [34], in which the current technical improvements of the model (carried out in Leipzig, CERN, and Paris) are also described.…”

“…• Tounsi [34] of 1973 and Ilgenfritz et al [33] of 1977 for a critical discussion and confrontation with experiment, and • Sertorio [38] of 1978 for more formal questions, the relation to the S-matrix, and so on.…”