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most citedExperimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

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hep-ph2001

A Monte Carlo Study on the Identification of Quark and Gluon Jets

Yu Meiling, Liu Lianshou

Three jets events in the ee collisions at 91.2 GeV are investigated using both HERWIG and JETSET Monte Carlo generators. The angles between the three jets are used to ident…

hep-ph2001★ 3 cited

Measurement of the Scaling Property of Factorial Moments in Hadronic Z Decay

Gang Chen, Yuan Hu, Lianshou Liu +2

Both three- and one-dimensional studies of local multiplicity fluctuations in hadronic Z decay are performed using data of the L3 experiment at LEP. The normalized factorial moment…

hep-ph2001★ 4 cited

Non-Abelian Medium Effects in Quark-Gluon Plasma

Ji-sheng Chen, Jia-rong Li, Peng-fei Zhuang

Based on the kinetic theory, the non-Abelian medium property of hot Quark-Gluon Plasma is investigated. The nonlinearity of the plasma comes from two aspects: The nonlinear wave-wa…

hep-ph2001

Event-by-Event Fluctuations of Transverse Momentum in Elementary Collisions at 250 GeV/

Bai YuTing, Fu JingHua, Wu YuanFang

We present a study of event-by-event fluctuations of transverse momentum in $π^{+}\p$ and $\K^{+}\p$ collisions at 250 GeV/ and the corresponding PYTHIA Monte Carlo results for…

hep-ph2001

Chapman-Enskog expansion of the Boltzmann equation and its diagrammatic interpretation

M. E. Carrington, Hou Defu, R. Kobes

We perform a Chapman-Enskog expansion of the Boltzmann equation keeping up to quadratic contributions. We obtain a generalized nonlinear Kubo formula, and a set of integral equatio…

hep-ph2001

Centrality Dependence of Baryon and Meson Momentum Distributions in Collisions

C. B. Yang, Rudolph C. Hwa

The proton and neutron inclusive distributions in the projectile fragmentation region of collisions are studied in the valon model. Momentum degradation and flavor changes due…

hep-ph2001

Bremsstrahlung Radiation as Coherent State in Thermal QED

Enke Wang, Jun Xiao, Hanzhong Zhang

Based on fully finite temperature field theory we investigate the radiation probability in the bremsstrahlung process in thermal QED. It turns out that the infrared divergences res…

hep-ph2001★ 10 cited

A Monte Carlo Study of Erraticity Behavior in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at High Energies

Liu Fuming, Liao Hongbo, Liu Ming +2

It is demonstrated using Monte Carlo simulation that in different nucleusnucleus collision samples, the increase of the fluctuation of event factorial moments with decreasing ph…

hep-ph2001★ 29 cited

Consistent Treatment of Soft and Hard Processes in Hadronic Interactions

F. M. Liu, H. J. Drescher, S. Ostapchenko +2

The QCD improved parton model is a very successful concept to treat processes in hadronic interactions, whenever large partonic transverse momenta are involved. However, cross sect…

hep-ph2001

Electron as Spatiotemporal Complexity due to Self-Organized Criticality

Meng Ta-chung

The electron, which has been pictured as an elementary particle ever since J.J. Thomson's e/m-measurement in 1897, and the relativistic motion of which is described by the Dirac eq…

hep-ph2001★ 4 cited

The multiple solutions of self-consistency condition in Walecka model and the validity of the Brown-Rho scaling law

Zhang Benwei, Hou Defu, Li Jiarong

We investigate the self-consistency condition (SCC) of mean-field theory in Walecka model and find that the solutions of the SCC are multiple at high temperature and chemical poten…

hep-ph2001★ 5 cited

A Diagrammatic Interpretation of the Boltzmann Equation

M. E. Carrington, Hou Defu, R. Kobes

We study nonlinear response in weakly coupled nonequilibrium theory in the context of both classical transport theory and real time quantum field theory, based on a generaliz…

hep-ph2001★ 3 cited

Understanding ratio distribution in the mixed events

C. B. Yang, X. Cai, Z. M. Zhou

The event mixing method is analyzed for the study of the event-by-event ratio distribution. It is shown that there exists some correlation between the kaon and pion multiplic…

hep-ph2001★ 2 cited

Influence of statistical fluctuations on ratios in relativistic heavy ion collisions

C. B. Yang, X. Cai

The influence of pure statistical fluctuations on ratio is investigated in an event-by-event way. Poisson and the modified negative binomial distributions are used as the mul…

hep-ph2001★ 9 cited

Charge Fluctuations at Disoriented Chiral Transition

Rudolph C. Hwa, C. B. Yang

The signatures of the creation of a disoriented chiral condensate in heavy-ion collisions are studied in the Ginzburg-Landau description of chiral phase transition. Scaling propert…

hep-ph2001★ 13 cited

Nonlinear Response from Transport Theory and Quantum Field Theory at Finite Temperature

M. E. Carrington, Hou Defu, R. Kobes

We study nonlinear response in weakly coupled hot theory. We obtain an expression for a quadratic shear viscous response coefficient using two different formalisms: transport…