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Baryon enhancement in high-density QCD and relativistic heavy ion collisions

Yang Li

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We argue that the collinear factorization of the fragmentation functions in high-energy nuclear collisions breaks down at transverse momenta pT lsim Qs/g due to high parton densities in the colliding hadrons and/or nuclei. We find that gluon recombination dominates in that pT region. We calculate the inclusive cross section for π meson and nucleon production using the low-energy theorems for the scale anomaly in QCD, and compare our quantitative baryon-to-meson ratio to the RHIC data.


PACS

24.85.+p Quarks, gluons, and QCD in nuclear reactions

27.80.+w 190(less-than-or-equal-to)A(less-than-or-equal-to)219

25.75.Dw Particle and resonance production

Subjects

Nuclear physics

Dates

Issue 10 (October 2008)

Received 31 March 2008

Published 17 September 2008



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