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Anomalous diffusion of pions at RHIC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-08-04 v3 Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

After pointing out the difference between normal and anomalous diffusion, we consider a hadron resonance cascade (HRC) model simulation for particle emission at RHIC and point out, that rescattering in an expanding hadron resonance gas leads to a heavy tail in the source distribution. The results are compared to recent PHENIX measurements of the tail of the particle emitting source in Au+Au collisions at RHIC. In this context, we show, how can one distinguish experimentally the anomalous diffusion of hadrons from a second order QCD phase transition.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0702032,
  title  = {Anomalous diffusion of pions at RHIC},
  author = {M. Csanad and T. Csorgo and M. Nagy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0702032},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

12 pages, 26 figures. Presented by T. Csorgo at the 2nd Workshop on Particle Femtoscopy and Correlations - WPCF in Sao Paulo, sept 2006. Brazilian Journal of Physics in press, minor misprints fixed

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