Criticality in Quark-Gluon Systems Far Beyond Thermal and Chemical Equilibrium

Autor: Meng Ta-chung, R. Rittel, Karsten Tabelow, Fu Jinghua
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2001
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DOI: 10.17877/de290r-6373
Popis: Experimental evidence and theoretical arguments for the existence of self-organized criticality in systems of gluons and quarks are presented. It is observed that the existing data for high-transverse-momentum jet-production exhibit striking regularities; and it is shown that, together with first-principle considerations, such regularities can be used, not only to probe the possible compositness of quarks, but also to obtain {\em direct evidence} for, or against, the existence of critical temperature and/or critical chemical potential in quark-gluon systems when hadrons are squeezed together.
Comment: 13 pages, including 1 figure and 1 table
Databáze: OpenAIRE