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Microscopic Models of Heavy Ion Interactions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-25 v1

Abstract

An introduction to dynamical microscopic models of hadronic and nuclear interactions is presented. Special emphasis is put in the relation between multiparticle production and total cross-section contributions. In heavy ion collisions, some observables, considered as signals of the production of a Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), are studied. It is shown that they can only be described if final state interactions are introduced. It is argued that the cross-sections required are too small to drive the system to thermal equilibrium within the duration time of the final state interaction.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0305196,
  title  = {Microscopic Models of Heavy Ion Interactions},
  author = {A. Capella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0305196},
  year   = {2015}
}

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39 pages, 18 figures. Lectures at VIII Hispalensis International Summer School, Seville (Spain), to be published by Springer Verlag

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