Number of Electrons per Collision as a Quark-Gluon Plasma Signal
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
We investigate whether the total number of electrons per collision, as a function of beam energy, is a potential quark-gluon-plasma (QGP) signature. At high beam energies, we find that, after experimental removal of the noise induced by Dalitz decays, the number of produced electrons is increased many times fold from the existence of the QGP. The robustness of the potential signal to differing theoretical assumptions makes it an attractive experimental parameter.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9703419,
title = {Number of Electrons per Collision as a Quark-Gluon Plasma Signal},
author = {C. Dib and O. Espinosa and P. D. Morley and I. Schmidt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9703419},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Physics Letters B