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There seems to be a general consensus now that a first glimpse of a QGP-like effect has become visible in the beautiful NA50 data onJ/ϕ production and the ‘anomalous supression’ phenomenon. On the other hand, it is still widely believed that the dynamics of heavy-ion collisions at CERN SPS energy is predominantly governed by soft, nonperturbative physics. This is ironic: after all, it is unlikely that a QGP could be formed if the underlying dynamics were essentially soft, rather than that it requires intense quark-gluon production with sufficient cascade-like reinteractions which drive the matter to large density and equilibrium. Therefore, I advocate in this contribution that for ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions a description based on the pQCD interactions and cascade evolution of involved partons can and should be used, owing to the claim that short-range parton interactions play an important role at sufficiently high beam energies, including CERN energy\(\sqrt s \simeq 20\) A·GeV. Here mini-jet production which liberates of quarks and gluons cannot be considered as an isolated rare phenomenon, but can occur quite copiously and may lead to complex multiple cascade-type processes.
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Geiger, K. Parton cascade description of heavy-ion collisions at cern?. Czech J Phys 48 (Suppl 1), 37–49 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10582-998-0005-0
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