STOPPING IN ULTRARELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS AND COLOR SCREENING

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FRANKFURT, L
STRIKMAN, M
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[1] Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.2289
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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It is explained that a large cross section and an increase with energy of diffractive production of nucleons (N*,...) (E(N),E(N*) greater-than-or-equal-to E(A)/A) in central collisions of light (A) and heavy (B) nuclei would signal the color-screening phenomenon and large fluctuations of size in the nucleon wave function. In particular, we find that for E(A)/A greater-than-or-equal-to 200 GeV and B approximately 240, the probability of diffractive nucleon production should increase by a factor > 5 as compared to that observed at BNL energies.
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