What Does the Balance Function Measure?
| dc.creator | Trainor, Thomas A. | |
| dc.date | 2003-01-16 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:49:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:49:02Z | |
| dc.description | The balance function has been proposed to `clock' hadronization by measuring the charge-dependent correlation length on rapidity. According to the proposal a narrowed balance function would imply reduced hadron diffusion time and therefore delayed hadronization due to a long-lived prehadronic state, a quark-gluon plasma or QGP. I examine this chain of argument in the context of hadronization and rescattering. I then consider the algebraic structure of the balance function and its systematic dependence on the charge correlation length on rapidity. I conclude that the width of the balance function cannot determine a time interval from hadronization to kinetic decoupling, nor can the width determine the existence or temporal extent of a QGP. | |
| dc.description | 16 pages, 5 figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0301122 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0301122 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/42252 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | What Does the Balance Function Measure? | |
| dc.type | text |