POSSIBILITY OF OBSERVING CENTAURO EVENTS AT THE BNL RELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLIDER

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作者
PANAGIOTOU, AD
PETRIDIS, A
VASSILIOU, M
机构
[1] University of Athens, Physics Department, Nuclear and Particle Physics Division, Panepistimiopolis
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1992年 / 45卷 / 09期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.45.3134
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
A phenomenological model for the production of "Centauro"-type cosmic-ray events is developed, assuming a nucleus-nucleus interaction in the upper atmosphere. The model is used to estimate, in a self-consistent way, several thermodynamic and kinematical quantities, characterizing the observed Centauro events. On the basis of this model, we describe a typical "Centauro" event, possibly produced in the fragmentation rapidity of an A + A central collision at square-root s = 200 A GeV at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. We suggest several characteristic signatures for these events, as well as the possibility of observing "strangelets."
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页码:3134 / 3142
页数:9
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