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Boundary between Hadron and Quark/Gluon Structure of Nuclei

Nuclear Theory 2011-08-04 v4 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We show that the boundary between quark-dominated and hadron-dominated regions of nuclear structure may be blurred by multi-nucleon quark clusters arising from color percolation. Recent experiments supporting partial percolation in cold nuclei and full percolation in hot/dense nuclear matter include: deep inelastic lepton-nucleus scattering, relativistic heavy-ion collisions and the binding energy in 5HeΛ^5 He_{\Lambda}.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1008.4962,
  title  = {Boundary between Hadron and Quark/Gluon Structure of Nuclei},
  author = {Hans J. Pirner and James P. Vary},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.4962},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

10 pages, 4 figures; added references; improved figures; fixed a typo (wrong sign in Eqn 6); Fixed typos in Equation 2; updated references