TY - JOUR
T1 - Multiple hadronization and the momentum of charmed particles. A signal of the quark-gluon plasma
AU - Svetitsky, Benjamin
N1 - Funding Information:
I thank Tetsuo Matsui for seminal discussions, Shmuel Nussinov for criticism, and the Weizmann Institute of Science for hospitality. This work was supported by the US Department of Energy under Contract ~DE-AC02-76-ER03069, and by the Center for Absorption in Science of the Israel Ministry of Immigrant Absorption. Further support was provided by the German-Israel Foundation.
PY - 1989/8/31
Y1 - 1989/8/31
N2 - The transverse momentum of charmed particles should be degraded by their passage through the mixed-phase fluid existing during the course of the quark-hadron phase transition. The mechanism is multiple hadronization, the repeated conversion of quark to meson and back as phase boundaries are crossed. The effect can be reduced by thermalization via ordinary collisions with particles of the plasma or the hadron gas, but passage through a homogeneous dense medium cannot duplicate the momentum degradation. The effect, if observed, thus constitutes a simple signal of the confinement phase transition in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions.
AB - The transverse momentum of charmed particles should be degraded by their passage through the mixed-phase fluid existing during the course of the quark-hadron phase transition. The mechanism is multiple hadronization, the repeated conversion of quark to meson and back as phase boundaries are crossed. The effect can be reduced by thermalization via ordinary collisions with particles of the plasma or the hadron gas, but passage through a homogeneous dense medium cannot duplicate the momentum degradation. The effect, if observed, thus constitutes a simple signal of the confinement phase transition in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions.
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U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(89)90960-X
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(89)90960-X
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AN - SCOPUS:0642296172
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 227
SP - 450
EP - 454
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 3-4
ER -