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Hadronization at Rhic: Interplay of Recombination and Fragmentation

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Structure and Dynamics of Elementary Matter

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series ((NAII,volume 166))

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We discuss hadron production in heavy ion collisions at RHIC. We argue that hadrons at transverse momenta P T < 5 GeV are formed by recombination of partons from the dense parton phase created in central collisions at RHIC. We provide a theoretical description of the recombination process for P T > 2 GeV. Below P T = 2 GeV our results smoothly match a purely statistical description. At hightransverse momentum hadron production is well describedin the language of perturbative QCD by the fragmentation of partons. We give numerical results for a variety of hadron spectra, ratios and nuclear suppression factors. We also discuss the anisotropic flow v 2 and give results based on a flow in the parton phase. Our results are consistent with the existence of a parton phase at RHIC hadronizing at a temperature of 175 MeV and a radial flow velocity of 0.55c.

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  1. Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA

    S. A. Bass & C. Nonaka

  2. Brookhaven National Laboratory, RIKEN BNL Research Center, Upton, NY, 11973, USA

    S. A. Bass

  3. Department of Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    R. J. Fries

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  1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Robert Mayer Str. 10, 60054, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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  2. Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Moscow region, Russia Federation

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  3. Department of Physics, Istanbul Technical University, 80626, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey

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Bass, S.A., Fries, R.J., Nonaka, C. (2004). Hadronization at Rhic: Interplay of Recombination and Fragmentation. In: Greiner, W., Itkis, M.G., Reinhardt, J., Güçlü, M.C. (eds) Structure and Dynamics of Elementary Matter. NATO Science Series, vol 166. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2705-5_17

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