NUKLEONIKA 2006, 51(Suppl. 3):s73-s78
Aram Mekjian
Rutgers University, Department of Physics, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
The specific heat of hot hadronic matter is related to particle production yields from experiments
done at CERN/RHIC. The mass fluctuation of excited hadrons plays an important role. Connections of
the specific heat, mean hadronic mass excited and its fluctuation with properties of baryon and
electric charge chemical potentials (value, slope and curvature) are also developed. A possible
divergence of the specific heat as 1/(T0 – T)2 is discussed.
Some connections with net charge fluctuations are noted.