Published July 24, 1995 | Version v1
Journal article

Hard probes of dense matter

Creators

  • 1. Bielefeld Univ. (Germany). Fakultaet fuer Physik
  • 2. European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva (Switzerland). Theory Div.

Description

Direct probes for the QGP must be hard enough to resolve sub-hadronic scales (<< Λ-1QCD) and distinguish confined and deconfined media. This can be achieved by fast colour charges (jets) and heavy quark resonances (quarkonia). After a general survey, we study quarkonia as confinement probe and show in particular that confined matter is transparent, deconfined matter opaque to J/ψ's. (orig.)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. A
Journal Volume
590
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 63c-80c.
ISSN
0375-9474
CODEN
NUPABL

Conference

Title
11. international conference on ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions (Quark Matter).
Dates
9-13 Jan 1995.
Place
Monterey, CA (United States).