Journal article

Publication year: 2003

Journal: Physical Review C

Volume number: 67

Issue number: 4

ISSN: 0556-2813

eISSN: 1089-490X

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.67.044905

Publisher: American Physical Society

Abstract: 
Typically, the materialization of highly energetic transverse partons to hadronic jets is assumed to occur outside the reaction zone in a relativistic heavy ion collision. In contrast, a quantum mechanical estimate yields a time on the order of only a few fm/c for building up the hadronic wave function for jets with typical transverse momenta of p(perpendicular to)less than or equal to10 GeV, as accessible at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) facilities. The role of possible elastic or inelastic collisions of these high p(perpendicular to) particles with the bulk of hadrons inside the fireball is addressed by means of an opacity expansion in the number of collisions. This analysis shows that the hadronic final state interactions can, in principle, account for the modification of the (moderate) high p(perpendicular to) spectrum observed for central collisions at RHIC.

Harvard Citation style: Gallmeister, K., Greiner, C. and Xu, Z. (2003) Quenching of high p_⊥ hadron spectra by hadronic interactions in heavy ion collisions at relativistic energies -: art. no. 044905, Physical Review C, 67(4), Article 044905. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.67.044905

APA Citation style: Gallmeister, K., Greiner, C., & Xu, Z. (2003). Quenching of high p_⊥ hadron spectra by hadronic interactions in heavy ion collisions at relativistic energies -: art. no. 044905. Physical Review C. 67(4), Article 044905. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.67.044905