Hadron Production in Ultra-relativistic Nuclear Collisions: Quarkyonic Matter and a Triple Point in the Phase Diagram of QCD

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Hadron Production in Ultra-relativistic Nuclear Collisions: Quarkyonic Matter and a Triple Point in the Phase Diagram of QCD
المؤلفون: Andronic, A., Blaschke, D., Braun-Munzinger, P., Cleymans, J., Fukushima, K., McLerran, L. D., Oeschler, H., Pisarski, R. D., Redlich, K., Sasaki, C., Satz, H., Stachel, J.
المصدر: Nucl.Phys.A837:65-86,2010
سنة النشر: 2009
المجموعة: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
مصطلحات موضوعية: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
الوصف: We argue that features of hadron production in relativistic nuclear collisions, mainly at CERN-SPS energies, may be explained by the existence of three forms of matter: Hadronic Matter, Quarkyonic Matter, and a Quark-Gluon Plasma. We suggest that these meet at a triple point in the QCD phase diagram. Some of the features explained, both qualitatively and semi-quantitatively, include the curve for the decoupling of chemical equilibrium, along with the non-monotonic behavior of strange particle multiplicity ratios at center of mass energies near 10 GeV. If the transition(s) between the three phases are merely crossover(s), the triple point is only approximate.
Comment: 28 pages, 9 figures; submitted to Nucl. Phys. A; v2 to eliminate obsolete figs. inadvertently attached at the end of the paper; v3: final version accepted for publication
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2010.02.005
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.4806
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.0911.4806
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2010.02.005