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Flux Tube Model Signals for Baryon Correlations in Heavy Ion Collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-05-30 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The flux tube model offers a pictorial description of what happens during the deconfinement phase transition in QCD. The 3-point vertices of a flux tube network lead to formation of baryons upon hadronisation. Therefore, correlations in the baryon number distribution at the last scattering surface are related to the preceding pattern of the flux tube vertices, and provide a signature of the nearby deconfinement phase transition. I discuss the nature of the expected signal, which should be observable in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC.

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@article{arxiv.1111.0177,
  title  = {Flux Tube Model Signals for Baryon Correlations in Heavy Ion Collisions},
  author = {Apoorva Patel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.0177},
  year   = {2013}
}

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LaTeX, 9 pages, 5 figures, (v2) Several arguments expanded for clarity, (v3) Minor typesetting changes, published version