The Parton-Hadron Phase Transition in Central Nuclear Collisions at the CERN SPS

Details The Parton-Hadron Phase Transition in Central Nuclear Collisions at the CERN SPS The Parton-Hadron Phase Transition in Central Nuclear Collisions at the CERN SPS

1999-01-26

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9901415v2

Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys. 42 (1999) 295-309

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

15 pages, 13 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0146-6410(99)00084-8

A selection of recent data referring to Pb+Pb collisions at the SPS CERN energy of 158 GeV per nucleon is presented which might describe the state of highly excited strongly interacting matter both above and below the deconfinement to hadronization (phase) transition predicted by lattice QCD. A tentative picture emerges in which a partonic state is indeed formed in central Pb+Pb collisions which hadronizes at about T = 185 MeV, and expands its volume more than tenfold, cooling to about 120 MeV before hadronic collisions cease. We suggest further that all SPS collisions, from central S+S onward, reach that partonic phase, the maximum energy density increasing with more massive collision systems.

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