COLOR ROPE FORMATION AND STRANGE BARYON PRODUCTION IN ULTRARELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS

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SORGE, H [1 ]
BERENGUER, M [1 ]
STOCKER, H [1 ]
GREINER, W [1 ]
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[1] UNIV FRANKFURT,W-6000 FRANKFURT,GERMANY
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10.1016/0370-2693(92)91353-B
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P1 [天文学];
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Enhanced strangeness production in recent experiments with S projectiles on different targets at a beam energy of 200 A GeV has been reported by several experimental groups (NA35, WA85, NA34). Here we consider that elementary triplet colour charges which are excited in the initial stage of a nucleus-nucleus collision may combine forming highly charged "ropes". The colour ropes decay by quark-antiquark pair creation screening the initial field. We implemented the generation and decay of ropes into a new version of the Monte Carlo program RQMD which is based on string excitation in ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. We find that all measured strange particle yields in S+S can be quantitatively understood employing the rope mechanism in addition to hadronic rescattering.
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