A method for probing the formation of quark matter

Autor: Gao-Chan Yong
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Physics Letters B, Vol 843, Iss , Pp 138051- (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0370-2693
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2023.138051
Popis: Based on a multi-phase transport model for relativistic heavy-ion collisions, effects of the parton scatterings on the production of strangeness in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are studied. It is found that the distributions of strange quark and strange baryon, especially for the double strangeness Ξ−, are significantly affected by the parton scatterings in heavy-ion collisions below sNN∼ 10 GeV. Given parton scatterings as a signal of the formation of quark matter, the transverse momentum distribution of the ratio of single and double strangeness (Λ+Σ0)/Ξ− produced in heavy-ion collisions may serve as a potential probe of the emergence of quark matter, or equivalently, the occurrence of hadron-quark phase transition in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
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