A Poincaré-covariant parton cascade model for ultrarelativistic heavy-ion reactions

DOI10.1016/S0375-9474(99)85094-5zbMATH Open0995.81532arXivhep-ph/0006038OpenAlexW2169293431MaRDI QIDQ1598643FDOQ1598643

Authors: R. Smith 

Publication date: 23 May 2002

Published in: Nuclear Physics. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a new cascade-type microscopic simulation of nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC energies. The basic elements are partons (quarks and gluons) moving in 8N-dimensional phase space according to Poincare-covariant dynamics. The parton-parton scattering cross sections used in the model are computed within perturbative QCD in the tree-level approximation. The Q^2 dependence of the structure functions is included by an implementation of the DGLAP mechanism suitable for a cascade, so that the number of partons is not static, but varies in space and time as the collision of two nuclei evolves. The resulting parton distributions are presented, and meaningful comparisons with experimental data are discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0006038

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zbMATH Keywords

perturbative QCDstructure functionsparton-parton scattering cross section

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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• Multiplicity distribution of heavy particles for hadron-nucleus interactions.
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• A new approach to nuclear collisions at RHIC energies

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