Parton Coalescence and the Antiproton/Pion Anomaly at RHIC Academic Article

abstract

• Coalescence of minijet partons with partons from the quark-gluon plasma formed in relativistic heavy ion collisions is suggested as the mechanism for production of hadrons with intermediate transverse momentum. The resulting enhanced antiproton and pion yields at intermediate transverse momenta give a plausible explanation for the observed large antiproton to pion ratio. With further increasing momentum, the ratio is predicted to decrease and approach the small value given by independent fragmentations of minijet partons after their energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma. 2003 The American Physical Society.

authors

• Ko, Che-Ming

published proceedings

• Physical Review Letters

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Greco, V., Ko, C. M., & Lvai, P.

citation count

• 544

complete list of authors

• Greco, V||Ko, CM||Lévai, P

publication date

• January 2003

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review Letters  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/physrevlett.90.202302

start page

• 4

volume

• 90

issue

• 20

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.90.202302