Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-11-25
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
28 pages, 9 figures; submitted to Nucl. Phys. A; v2 to eliminate obsolete figs. inadvertently attached at the end of the paper
Scientific paper
We argue that features of hadron production in relativistic nuclear collisions, mainly at CERN-SPS energies, may be explained by the existence of three forms of matter: Hadronic Matter, Quarkyonic Matter, and a Quark-Gluon Plasma. We suggest that these meet at a triple point in the QCD phase diagram. Some of the features explained, both qualitatively and semi-quantitatively, include the curve for the decoupling of chemical equilibrium, along with the non-monotonic behavior of strange particle multiplicity ratios at center of mass energies near 10 GeV. If the transition(s) between the three phases are merely crossover(s), the triple point is only approximate.
Andronic A.
Blaschke David
Braun-Munzinger Peter
Cleymans Jean
Fukushima Kenji
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