2001/01/08 by O. D. Chernavskaya, Olga Chernavskaya, E. L. Feinberg +5
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0101063
4 pages, 1 GIF figure
arxiv created 2001/01/08 · openalex publication_date 2001/01/08 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The possibility of unified description of hadron multiple production in heavy ion collisions over the wide energy interval, from few hundreds MeV/n at GSI/SIS through 11 GeV/n at BNL/AGS up to 160 GeV/n at CERN/SPS, has been emphasized recently by J. Cleymans and K. Redlich. They, and somewhat later B. Muller and J. Rafelski, treated this fact as an indication that quark-gluon plasma (QGP) can be produced even at very low energies of impinging nuclei. In our opinion, it rather witnesses that a massive constituent quark (valon) - not massless current quark and gluon! - is just what becomes "quite easily" to be unbound, and thus supports the expectation that in course of compression and heating from hadronic state to QGP (or, vice versa, of expansion and cooling down from QGP to hadronic state) nuclear matter should pass through an intermediate phase in between.