Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2006-06-13
Nukleonika51S3:S109-S112,2006
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
4 pages, 3 figures, Poster Proceedings for Quark Matter 2005, Budapest, Hungary, August 4-9, 2005
Scientific paper
Multiparticle production at high energies is described in terms of color strings stretched between the projectile and target. As string density increases, overlap among the strings leads to cluster formation. At some critical density a macroscopic cluster appears, spanning the entire system. This marks the percolation phase transition. Data from p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV has been analyzed using the STAR detector to obtain the percolation density parameter, $\eta$. For 200 GeV Au+Au collisions, the value of $\eta$ is found to lie above the critical percolation threshold, while for 200 GeV d+Au collisions it is below the critical value. This supports the idea of string percolation, which at high enough string density is a possible mechanism to explore the hadronic phase transition to a quark-gluon plasma.
Scharenberg Rolf P.
Srivastava Brijesh K.
Tarnowsky Terence J.
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