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Particle production by time-dependent meson fields in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Collective bremsstrahlung of vector meson fields caused by mutual deceleration of the colliding nuclei is considered within the time-dependent Walecka theory. Excitation functions and rapidity distributions of particles produced by this mechanism are calculated under some simplifying assumptions about the space-time variation of the baryon current in a nuclear collision. In the case of central Au+Au collisions the bremsstrahlung mechanism becomes comparable with particle production in incoherent hadron--hadron collisions above the AGS energies.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9611295,
  title  = {Particle production by time-dependent meson fields in relativistic heavy-ion collisions},
  author = {I. N. Mishustin and L. M. Satarov and H. Stoecker and W. Greiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9611295},
  year   = {2007}
}

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9 pages