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arXiv 2001-10-25 DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.112501 0 views

Collective Deceleration of Ultrarelativistic Nuclei and Creation of Quark-Gluon Plasma

Mishustin, I. N. · Kapusta, J. I.

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We propose a unified space-time picture of baryon stopping and quark-gluon plasma creation in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. It is assumed that the highly Lorentz contracted nuclei are decelerated by the coherent color field which is formed between them after they pass through each other. This process continues until the field is neutralized by the Schwinger mechanism. Conservation of energy and momentum allow us to calculate the energy losses of the nuclear slabs and the initial energy density of the quark-gluon plasma.

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