Stopped nucleons in configuration space
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2018-02-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
In this note, using the colour string model, we study the configuration space distribution of stopped nucleons in heavy-ion collisions. We find that the stopped nucleons from the target and the projectile end up separated from each other by the distance increasing with the collision energy. In consequence, for the center of mass energies larger than 6 or 10 GeV (depending on the details of the model) it appears that the system created is not in thermal and chemical equilibrium, and the net baryon density reached is likely not much higher than that already present in the colliding nuclei.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1608.07041,
title = {Stopped nucleons in configuration space},
author = {Andrzej Bialas and Adam Bzdak and Volker Koch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.07041},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
8 pages, 2 figures