DYNAMICS OF PARTON CASCADES IN HIGHLY RELATIVISTIC NUCLEAR COLLISIONS

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GEIGER, K [1 ]
MULLER, B [1 ]
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[1] DUKE UNIV,DEPT PHYS,DURHAM,NC 27706
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10.1016/0550-3213(92)90280-O
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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We present a fully relativistic space-time approach for the simulation of highly-energetic nucleus-nucleus collisions. The model incorporates the idea of the factorization of short-range parton-parton interactions and the hadronization process. The nuclear collisions are described by the time evolution of the parton distributions in phase space according to a relativistic transport-equation with a collision term that embodies the structure of parton-parton collisions and associated parton emission processes as calculated in the framework of perturbative QCD. We have studied A + A collisions from p + p up to U-238 + U-238 at center-of-mass energies of 100 GeV/A and 200 GeV/A. Results for the time evolution of parton multiplicities, transverse energy production, rapidity and p(perpendicular-to) distributions are presented.
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页码:600 / 654
页数:55
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