2008

Resonance Recombination Model and Quark Distribution Functions in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Ravagli, L., van Hees, H., Rapp, R.

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We investigate the consequences of space-momentum correlations in quark phase-space distributions for coalescence processes at the hadronization transition.

  • Thus far it has been proved difficult to reconcile such correlations with the empirically observed constituent quark number scaling (CQNS) at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC).
  • To address this problem we combine our earlier developed quark recombination model with quark phase-space distributions computed from relativistic Langevin simulations in an expanding Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP).
  • Hadronization is based on resonance formation within a Boltzmann equation which recovers thermal equilibrium and obeys energy conservation in the quark-coalescence process, while the fireball background is adjusted to hydrodynamic simulations of semi-central Au-Au collisions at RHIC.

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