We recently introduced a completely new way to study ultrarelativistic nuclear scattering by providing a link between the string model approach and a statistical description. A key issue is the microcanonical treatment of hadronizing individual quark matter droplets. In this paper we describe in detail the hadronization of these droplets according to n-body phase space, by using methods of statistical physics, i.e., constructing Markov chains of hadron configurations.

• Received 24 March 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.52.1584