392 research outputs found

    Hadron Mass Spectrum from Lattice QCD

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    Finite temperature lattice simulations of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) are sensitive to the hadronic mass spectrum for temperatures below the "critical" temperature T_c ~ 160 MeV. We show that a recent precision determination of the QCD trace anomaly shows evidence for the existence of a large number of hadron states beyond those known from experiment. The lattice results are well represented by an exponentially growing hadron mass spectrum up to a temperature T = 155 MeV. Using simple parametrizations we show how one may estimate the total spectral weight in these yet undermined states

    Hadronic Ratios and the Number of Projectile Participants. Thermal hadron production in Si-Au collisions

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    We investigate the dependence of hadronic ratios on the number of projectile participants using a thermal model incorporating exact baryon number and strangeness conservation. A comparison is made with results from Au−AuAu-Au collisions obtained at the BNL-AGS.Comment: 5 pages LaTeX2e, 4 figures in Postscript forma

    Aspects of thermal strange quark production: the deconfinement and chiral phase transitions

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    We study the gluonic sector of the three-flavor PNJL model by obtaining the adjoint Polyakov loop and the gluon distribution function in the mean-field approximation. Besides, we explore the thermal strange quark pair-production processes, qqˉ→ssˉq\bar {q} \to s\bar {s} and gg→ssˉgg \to s \bar {s}, with the aid of the three-flavor PNJL model. The results help us identify the temperature where the gluonic contribution to the production rate becomes dominant, which is an innovative phenomenon compared with the result obtained in free perturbation theory.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, final version - To appear in the conference proceedings for Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennesse

    A New Phase of Matter: Quark-Gluon Plasma Beyond the Hagedorn Critical Temperature

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    I retrace the developments from Hagedorn's concept of a limiting temperature for hadronic matter to the discovery and characterization of the quark-gluon plasma as a new state of matter. My recollections begin with the transformation more than 30 years ago of Hagedorn's original concept into its modern interpretation as the "critical" temperature separating the hadron gas and quark-gluon plasma phases of strongly interacting matter. This was followed by the realization that the QCD phase transformation could be studied experimentally in high-energy nuclear collisions. I describe here my personal effort to help develop the strangeness experimental signatures of quark and gluon deconfinement and recall how the experimental program proceeded soon to investigate this idea, at first at the SPS, then at RHIC, and finally at LHC. As it is often the case, the experiment finds more than theory predicts, and I highlight the discovery of the "perfectly" liquid quark-gluon plasma at RHIC. I conclude with an outline of future opportunities, especially the search for a critical point in the QCD phase diagram.Comment: To appear in {\em Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks} by Rolf Hagedorn and Johan Rafelski (editor), Springer Publishers, 2015 (open access

    Results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

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    We describe the current status of the heavy ion research program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The new suite of experiments and the collider energies have opened up new probes of the medium created in the collisions. Our review focuses on the experimental discoveries to date at RHIC and their interpretation in the light of our present theoretical understanding of the dynamics of relativistic heavy ion collisions and of the structure of strongly interacting matter at high energy density.Comment: 47 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. The authors invite and appreciate feedback about possible errors and/or inconsistencies in the manuscrip

    Unified Description of Freeze-Out Parameters in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

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    It is shown that the chemical freeze-out parameters obtained at CERN/SPS, BNL/AGS and GSI/SIS energies all correspond to a unique value of 1 GeV per hadron in the local rest frame of the system, independent of the beam energy and of the target and beam particles.Comment: revtex, 1 figur

    Quantum Decoherence, Entropy and Thermalization in Strong Interactions at High Energy

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    Entropy is generated in high-multiplying events by a dynamical separation of strongly interacting systems into partons and unobservable environment modes (almost constant field configurations) due to confinement.Comment: 45 pages, 2 figure

    On the Thermodynamics of Hot Hadronic Matter

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    The equation of state of hot hadronic matter is obtained, by taking into account the contribution of the massive states with the help of the resonance spectrum τ(m)∼m3\tau (m)\sim m^3 justified by the authors in previous papers. This equation of state is in agreement with that provided by the low-temperature expansion for the pion intracting gas. It is shown that in this picture the deconfinement phase transition is absent, in agreement with lattice gauge calculations which show the only phase transition of chiral symmetry restoration. The latter is modelled with the help of the restriction of the number of the effective degrees of freedom in the hadron phase to that of the microscopic degrees of freedom in the quark-gluon phase, through the corresponding truncation of the hadronic resonance spectrum, and the decrease of the effective hadron masses with temperature, predicted by Brown and Rho. The results are in agreement with lattice gauge data and show a smooth crossover in the thermodynamic variables in a temperature range ∼50\sim 50 MeV.Comment: 21 pages, LaTeX, 3 postscript figure
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