Parton Percolation in Nuclear Collisions
| dc.creator | Satz, H. | |
| dc.date | 2002-12-03 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:48:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:48:45Z | |
| dc.description | An essential prerequisite for quark-gluon plasma production in nuclear collisions is cross-talk between the partons from different nucleons in the colliding nuclei. The initial density of partons is determined by the parton distribution functions obtained from deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering and by the nuclear geometry; it increases with increasing $A$ and/or $\sqrt s$. In the transverse collision plane, this results in clusters of overlapping partons, and at some critical density, the cluster size suddenly reaches the size of the system. The onset of large-scale cross-talk through color connection thus occurs as geometric critical behavior. Percolation theory specifies the details of this transition, which leads to the formation of a condensate of deconfined partons. Given sufficient time, this condensate could eventually thermalize. However, already the onset of parton condensation in the initial state, without subsequent thermalization, leads to a number of interesting observable consequences. | |
| dc.description | 15 pages, 18 figures; Lectures at the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Varenna/Italy, 6.-16. 8. 2002 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0212046 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0212046 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/42137 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | Parton Percolation in Nuclear Collisions | |
| dc.type | text |