Assessment of the possibility of discovering the asymptotic hadron spectrum through ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions

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Abstract
The asymptotic form of the hadronic mass spectrum, beyond the region where individual resonances can be identified, is a fundamental property of matter, interesting in both particle physics and cosmology. We investigate the possibility of discovering its form through the properties of hot hadronic matter such as might be produced in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. We find that at collision energies in the tens of GeV per nucleon in the c.m., a sensitivity of certain measurements to the underlying hadronic spectrum can be expected.