Critical examination of RHIC paradigms-mostly high pT
Nuclear Experiment
2011-04-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
A critical examination of RHIC paradigms is presented. Topics include: search for a critical point with a low energy scan; the lack of understanding of radiative processes in a medium in QCD compared in detail to examples from QED; the reason why some physicists started to measure particles at large pT in the 1960's; a review of the discovery of hard-scattering in p-p collisions in the 1970's via single-inclusive and two-particle correlations and application of these techniques at RHIC. Several paradigms in both soft and hard physics which are popular at RHIC are discussed and challenged.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1008.1536,
title = {Critical examination of RHIC paradigms-mostly high pT},
author = {Michael J. Tannenbaum},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.1536},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
37 pages, 32 figures, Workshop on Critical Examination of RHIC Paradigms, Austin, TX, April 14-17,2010. Minor corrections in Editorial Process