Critical examination of RHIC paradigms-mostly high pT
arXiv:1008.1536
Abstract
A critical examination of RHIC paradigms is presented. Topics include: search for a critical point with a low energy scan; the lack of understanding of radiative processes in a medium in QCD compared in detail to examples from QED; the reason why some physicists started to measure particles at large pT in the 1960's; a review of the discovery of hard-scattering in p-p collisions in the 1970's via single-inclusive and two-particle correlations and application of these techniques at RHIC. Several paradigms in both soft and hard physics which are popular at RHIC are discussed and challenged.
arXiv comment37 pages, 32 figures, Workshop on Critical Examination of RHIC Paradigms, Austin, TX, April 14-17,2010. Minor corrections in Editorial Process
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