The QGP phase in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Abstract
The dynamics of partons, hadrons and strings in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions is analyzed within the novel Parton-Hadron-String Dynamics (PHSD) transport approach, which is based on a dynamical quasiparticle model for partons (DQPM) matched to reproduce recent lattice-QCD results - including the partonic equation of state - in thermodynamic equilibrium. The transition from partonic to hadronic degrees of freedom is described by covariant transition rates for the fusion of quark-antiquark pairs or three quarks (antiquarks), respectively, obeying flavor current-conservation, color neutrality as well as energy-momentum conservation. The PHSD approach is applied to nucleus-nucleus collisions from low SIS to RHIC energies. The traces of partonic interactions are found in particular in the elliptic flow of hadrons as well as in their transverse mass spectra.
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@article{arxiv.1202.4891,
title = {The QGP phase in relativistic heavy-ion collisions},
author = {E. L. Bratkovskaya and V. P. Konchakovski and V. Voronyuk and V. D. Toneev and O. Linnyk and W. Cassing},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.4891},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To be published by Springer in Proceedings of the International Symposium on `Exciting Physics', Makutsi-Range, South Africa, 13-20 November, 2011