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Space-time evolution of hadronization

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Beside its intrinsic interest for the insights it can give into color confinement, knowledge of the space-time evolution of hadronization is very important for correctly interpreting jet-quenching data in heavy-ion collisions and extracting the properties of the produced medium. On the experimental side, the cleanest environment to study the space-time evolution of hadronization is semi-inclusive deeply inelastic scattering on nuclear targets. On the theoretical side, two frameworks are presently competing to explain the observed attenuation of hadron production: quark energy loss (with hadron formation outside the nucleus) and nuclear absorption (with hadronization starting inside the nucleus). I will discuss recent observables and ideas which will help to distinguish these two mechanisms and to measure the time scales of the hadronization process.

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Accardi, A. Space-time evolution of hadronization. Eur. Phys. J. C 49, 347–353 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0055-z

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