Clocking Hadronization in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions with Balance Functions

2000/05/31 by Steffen A. Bass, Steffen Bass, Pawel Danielewicz +2 · 200 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic physics #Balance (ability) #Hadron #Hadronization #Heavy ion #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Ion #Nuclear physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.85.2689

published in Physical Review Letters 85(13), 2689-2692 (American Physical Society) · 5 pages, 3 figures

arxiv created 2000/08/29 · openalex publication_date 2000/09/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

A novel state of matter has been hypothesized to exist during the early stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, with normal hadrons not appearing until several fm/c after the start of the reaction. To test this hypothesis, correlations between charges and their associated anticharges are evaluated with the use of balance functions. It is shown that late-stage hadronization is characterized by tightly correlated charge-anticharge pairs when measured as a function of relative rapidity.

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