Published April 20, 1992 | Version v1
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Probing parton thermalization time with charm production

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27706 (United States)

Description

Preequilibrium parton scattering is shown to make an important contribution to the charm production in relativistic heavy ion collisions. In contrast to the gluon shadowing effect in the initial parton scattering, the enhancement of the final total open charm in the central region due to preequilibrium production could be used as a measure of the thermalization time of the dense partonic system

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
68
Journal Issue
16
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
2437-2439
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTA

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
23084642
Subject category
S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
CHARM PARTICLES; CROSS SECTIONS; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; PARTON MODEL; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUARK MATTER; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSVERSE MOMENTUM
Descriptors DEC
COMPOSITE MODELS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MOMENTUM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY