https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2003-01268-3
theoretical physics
Searching for quark-gluon plasma (QGP) bubble effects at RHIC/LHC
1
Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY 11973, Upton, USA
2
City College of New York, NY 10031, USA
Since the early eighties, we have shared with van Hove the following view: If a quark-gluon plasma were produced in high energy heavy ion colliders, then its hadronization products would likely come from small bubbles of plasma localized in phase space. We develop a model based on HIJING, to which we added a ring of adjoining multiple bubbles in the central rapidity region. Our simulations were designed to be tested by the forthcoming RHIC STAR detector data for 65 GeV/n Au colliding with 65 GeV/n Au. We took into account background and resonance effects to allow a direct comparison to be made with the data. Later 100 GeV/n Au colliding with 100 GeV/n Au and LHC data could also test these ideas. We used two charged particle correlations as a sensitive method to test for bubbles.
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