13 research outputs found
Strangeness Production and Ultrarelativistic Cascades
A two phase cascade, LUCIFER II, developed for the treatment of ultra high
energy ion-ion collisions is applied to the production of strangeness at SPS
energies . This simulation is able to simultaneously describe
both hard processes such as Drell-Yan and slower, soft processes such as the
production of light mesons, including strange mesons, by separating the
dynamics into two steps, a fast cascade involving only nucleons in the original
colliding relativistic ions followed, after an appropriate delay, by
multiscattering of the resulting excited baryons and mesons produced virtually
in the first step. No energy loss can take place in the short time interval
over which the first cascade takes place. The chief result is a reconciliation
of the important Drell-Yan measurements with the apparent success of standard
cascades to describe the nucleon stopping and meson production in heavy ion
experiments at the CERN SPS. A byproduct, obtained here in preliminary
calculations, is a description of strangeness production in the collision of
massive ions.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
The H-Dibaryon and the Hard Core
The H dibaryon, a single, triply magic bag containing two up, two down and
two strange quarks, has long been sought after in a variety of experiments. Its
creation has been attempted in , proton and most recently in relativistic
heavy ion induced reactions. We concentrate on the latter, but our conclusions
are more generally applicable. The two baryons coalescing to form the single
dibaryon, likely in the case of heavy ions, must penetrate
the short range repulsive barrier which is expected to exist between them. We
find that this barrier can profoundly affect the probability of producing the H
state, should it actually exist.Comment: 9 pages including 4 figure
J/Psi Suppression in Heavy Ion Collisions at the CERN SPS
We reexamine the production of J/Psi and other charmonium states for a
variety of target-projectile choices at the SPS. For this study we use a newly
constructed cascade code LUCIFER II, which yields acceptable descriptions of
both hard and soft processes, specifically Drell-Yan and hidden charm
production, and soft energy loss and meson production, at the SPS. Glauber
calculations of other authors are redone, and compared directly to the cascade
results. The modeling of the charmonium states differs from that of earlier
workers in its unified treatment of the hidden charm meson spectrum, which is
introduced from the outset as a set of coupled states. The result is a
description of the NA38 and NA50 data in terms of a conventional hadronic
picture. The apparently anomalous suppression found in the most massive Pb+Pb
system arises from three sources: destruction in the initial nucleon-nucleon
cascade, use of coupled channels to exploit the larger breakup in the less
bound Chi and Psi' states, and comover interaction in the final low energy
phase.Comment: 36 pages (15 figures
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Standard model bosons as composite particles
The Standard model of electro-weak interactions is derived from a Nambu, Jona-Lasinio type four-fermion interaction, which is assumed to result from a more basic theory valid above a very high scale {Lambda}. The masses of the gauge bosons and the Higgs are then produced by dynamical symmetry breaking of the Nambu model at an intermediate scale {mu}, and are evolved back to experimental energies via the renormalisation group equations of the Standard model. The weak angle sin{sup 2} ({theta}{sub W}) is predicted to be 3/8 at the scale {mu}, as in grand unified theories, and is evolved back to the experimental value at scale M{sub W}, thus determining {mu} {approximately}10{sup 13}GeV. Predictions for the ratios of the masses of the gauge and the Higgs bosons to the top quark mass, at experimental energies, are also obtained
Low--Energy Behavior of Two--Point Functions of Quark Currents
We discuss vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudoscalar two-point functions
at low and intermediate energies. We first review what is known from chiral
perturbation theory, as well as from a heat kernel expansion within the context
of the extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (ENJL) model of ref. \cite{12}. In this work
we derive then these two-point functions to all orders in the momenta and to
leading order in . We find an improved high-energy behaviour and a
general way of parametrizing them that shows relations between some of the
two-point functions, which are also valid in the presence of gluonic
interactions. The similarity between the shape of the experimentally known
spectral functions and the ones we derive, is greatly improved with respect to
those predicted by the usual constituent quark like models. We also obtain the
scalar mass independent of the regularization scheme. In the end,
we calculate fully an example of a nonleptonic matrix element in the
ENJL--model, the electromagnetic mass difference and find good
agreement with the measured value.Comment: 37 pages + 6 uuencoded figures, CERN TH 6924/93, CPT-93/P.2917,
NORDITA 93/43-N,
A Multi-Phase Transport model for nuclear collisions at RHIC
To study heavy ion collisions at energies available from the Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider, we have developed a multi-phase transport model that
includes both initial partonic and final hadronic interactions. Specifically,
the parton cascade model ZPC, which uses as input the parton distribution from
the HIJING model, is extended to include the quark-gluon to hadronic matter
transition and also final-state hadronic interactions based on the ART model.
Predictions of the model for central Au on Au collisions at RHIC are reported.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Covariance of Antiproton Yield and Source Size in Nuclear Collisions
We confront for the first time the widely-held belief that combined
event-by-event information from quark gluon plasma signals can reduce the
ambiguity of the individual signals. We illustrate specifically how the
measured antiproton yield combined with the information from pion-pion HBT
correlations can be used to identify novel event classes.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, improved title, references and readability;
results unchange
Formation of superdense hadronic matter in high energy heavy-ion collisions
We present the detail of a newly developed relativistic transport model (ART
1.0) for high energy heavy-ion collisions. Using this model, we first study the
general collision dynamics between heavy ions at the AGS energies. We then show
that in central collisions there exists a large volume of sufficiently
long-lived superdense hadronic matter whose local baryon and energy densities
exceed the critical densities for the hadronic matter to quark-gluon plasma
transition. The size and lifetime of this matter are found to depend strongly
on the equation of state. We also investigate the degree and time scale of
thermalization as well as the radial flow during the expansion of the
superdense hadronic matter. The flow velocity profile and the temperature of
the hadronic matter at freeze-out are extracted. The transverse momentum and
rapidity distributions of protons, pions and kaons calculated with and without
the mean field are compared with each other and also with the preliminary data
from the E866/E802 collaboration to search for experimental observables that
are sensitive to the equation of state. It is found that these inclusive,
single particle observables depend weakly on the equation of state. The
difference between results obtained with and without the nuclear mean field is
only about 20\%. The baryon transverse collective flow in the reaction plane is
also analyzed. It is shown that both the flow parameter and the strength of the
``bounce-off'' effect are very sensitive to the equation of state. In
particular, a soft equation of state with a compressibility of 200 MeV results
in an increase of the flow parameter by a factor of 2.5 compared to the cascade
case without the mean field. This large effect makes it possible to distinguish
the predictions from different theoretical models and to detect the signaturesComment: 55 pages, latex, + 39 figures available upon reques
Flavor Production in Pb(160AGeV) on Pb Collisions: Effect of Color Ropes and Hadronic Rescattering
Collective interactions in the preequilibrium quark matter and hadronic
resonance gas stage of ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions are studied
in the framework of the the transport theoretical approach RQMD. The paper
reviews string fusion into color ropes and hadronic rescattering which serve as
models for these interactions. Hadron production in central Pb(160AGeV) on Pb
collisions has been calculated. The changes of the final flavor composition are
more pronounced than in previous RQMD studies of light ion induced reactions at
200AGeV. The ratio of created quark pairs /(+) is
enhanced by a factor of 2.4 in comparison to results. Color rope formation
increases the initially produced antibaryons to 3 times the value in the `NN
mode', but only one quarter of the produced antibaryons survives because of
subsequent strong absorption. The differences in the final particle composition
for Pb on Pb collisions compared to S induced reactions are attributed to the
hadronic resonance gas stage which is baryon-richer and lasts longer.Comment: 60 pages + 11 postscript figures (uuencoded and included
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MULTI - QUARK HADRONS : PRODUCTION OF S = - 2 SYSTEMS.
The general character of 4-quark (mesonic) and strange 6-quark (baryonic) quark systems is very briefly reviewed a la Jaffe, i.e. in the MIT bag, and so far still possibly viable candidates are indicated. The concentration is on the latter (S = -2) systems, with some attention given to more likely to be discoverable light, doubly-strange nuclei. The two modes for generating doubly strange, generally double-{Lambda} nuclear systems, are considered and related to each other. Traditionally, one employs the (K{sup -},K{sup +}) reaction on a relatively light target and hopes to retain two units of strangeness on a single final state fragment. Alternatively, heavy ion reactions can be used to produce {Lambda}-hyperons copiously and one seeks to observe coalescence of two of these particles into the lightest S=-2 nucleus, the H-dibaryon. The complications arising from the presence of a repulsive core in the baryon-baryon interaction on the production of the H are discussed. Also considered is the possible presence in the data from the AGS experiment E906, of slightly heavier S=-2 nuclei, in particular in the system {sub {lambda}{lambda}}{sup 4}H