Hadronization and Quark Probes of Deconfinement at RHIC
Abstract
We discuss experimental features of identified particle production from nucleus-nucleus collisions. These features reflect hadronization from a deconfined partonic matter whose particle formation scheme is distinctly different from fragmentation phenomenology in elementary collisions. Multi-parton dynamics, such as quark coalescences or recombinations, appear to be essential to explain the experimental measurements at the intermediate transverse momentum of 2--5 GeV/c. Constituent quarks seem to be the dominant degrees of freedom at hadronization. Heavy quark production should help quantify deconfined matter properties.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0501187,
title = {Hadronization and Quark Probes of Deconfinement at RHIC},
author = {Huan Z. Huang and Johann Rafelski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0501187},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
18 pages, This report constitutes the combined contribution of the authors to the "VI Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum" conference, held 21--25 September 2004 in Sardinia, Italy covering their oral presentations and the `Deconfinement' discussion session; proceedings to be published by the American Institute of Physics