Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-02-11
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A21:3421-3440,2006
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
19 pages, RevTex, no figures, minor changes
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217751X06033088
At the quark-hadron transition, when quarks get confined to hadrons, certain orbitally excited states, namely those which have excitation energies above the respective $L = 0$ states of the same order as the transition temperature $T_c$, may form easily because of thermal velocities of quarks at the transition temperature. We propose that the ratio of multiplicities of such excited states to the respective $L = 0$ states can serve as an almost model independent signal for the quark-gluon plasma formation in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. For example, the ratio $R^*$ of multiplicities of $D_{SJ}^{*\pm}(2317)(J^P = 0^+)$ and $D_S^{*\pm}(2112)(J^P = 1^-)$ when plotted with respect to the center of mass energy of the collision $\sqrt{s}$ (or vs. centrality/number of participants), should show a jump at the value of $\sqrt{s}$ beyond which the QGP formation occurs. This should happen irrespective of the shape of the overall plot of $R^*$ vs. $\sqrt{s}$. Recent data from RHIC on $\Lambda^*/\Lambda$ vs. N$_{part}$ for large values of N$_{part}$ may be indicative of such a behavior, though there are large error bars. We give a list of several other such candidate hadronic states.
Layek Biswanath
Sanyal Soma
Srivastava Ajit M.
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