Short-Lived Resonances as Probes of the Medium Produced in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Abstract

Hadronic resonances play an important role in the study of the physics of heavy-ion collisions. In these proceedings, we discuss how the resonances can probe the reaction dynamics, the strangeness production and the properties of the hadronic phase in heavy-ion collisions at center-of-mass energies of sNN = 4–11 GeV. The resonance properties predicted by the general-purpose event generators are found to be very sensitive to the properties and space-time evolution of the medium produced in heavy-ion collisions.

Keywords

• heavy-ion collisions
• short-lived hadronic resonances
• hadronic phase
• strangeness