Anomalous baryon production in heavy ion collisions at LHC energies

Aug, 2012
7 pages
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Abstract: (arXiv)
In ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions the baryon-meson ratio is not fully understood in the intermediate-to-high transverse momentum region. Although quark coalescence methods combined with jet fragmentation yield results close to the experimental data, some tendencies are not reproduced and require further investigation. We propose a new channel, namely extra quark-antiquark and diquark-antidiquark pair production from coherent gluon field created in the early stage of heavy ion collisions. This process is described quantitatively by the time-dependent Schwinger-mechanism. The extra diquark-quark coalescence yields are able to explain the measured anomalous baryon production.
Note:
  • 7 pages, 9 figures
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • baryon: production
  • quark: coalescence
  • jet: fragmentation
  • gluon: coherence
  • meson baryon: ratio
  • time dependence
  • quark: pair production
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • meson: production