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Interplay of parton and hadron cascades in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN SPS and RHIC

Klaus Geiger·Ronald Longacre
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We introduce a Monte Carlo space-time model for high-energy collisions with nuclei, involving the dynamical interplay of perturbative QCD parton production and evolution, with non-perturbative parton-cluster formation and `afterburner' cascading of formed pre-hadronic clusters plus hadron excitations. This approach allows us to trace the space-time history of parton and hadron degrees of freedom of nuclear collisions on the microscopical level of parton and hadron cascades in both position and momentum space, from the instant of nuclear overlap to the final yield of particles. In applying this approach, we analyze Pb+Pb collisions at the CERN SPS with beam energy 158 GeV (sqrt{s}/A = 17 GeV) and Au+Au collisions at RHIC with collider energy \sqrt{s}/A = 200 GeV. We find that the perturbative QCD parton production and cascade development provides an important contribution to particle production at central rapidities, and that the `afterburner' cascading of pre-hadronic clusters and formed hadrons emerging from the parton cascade is essential. The overall agreement of our model calculations including the `afterburner' cascading with the observed particle spectra at the CERN SPS is fairly good, whereas the neglect of the final-state interactions among hadronic excitations deviates significantly.

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Klaus Geiger, Ronald Longacre. 1997-05-23. Interplay of parton and hadron cascades in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN SPS and RHIC. https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9705041

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