https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2004-01971-5
theoretical physics
gluonic dissociation revisited: I. Fugacity, flux and formation time effects
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Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, 247 667, Roorkee, India
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Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, 221 005, Varanasi, India
We revisit the standard treatment due to Xu et al. of suppression due to gluonic bombardment in an equilibrating quark-gluon plasma. Effects arising from gluon fugacity, relative g-
flux, and meson formation time are explicitly incorporated in the formulation of the gluon number density, velocity-weighted cross section, and the survival probability. Our new formulae are applied to a numerical study of the pattern of suppression in the central rapidity region at RHIC/LHC energies. The temperature and transverse momentum dependence of our graphs have noticeable differences from those of Xu et al.
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