High Energy Hadron Production as Self-Organized Criticality
arXiv:1901.10407 · doi:10.1142/S0218301319500253
Abstract
In high energy nuclear collisions, production rates of light nuclei as well as those of hadrons and hadronic resonances agree with the predictions of an ideal gas at a temperature T = 155 +/- 10 MeV. In an equilibrium medium of this temperature, light nuclei cannot survive. We propose that the observed behavior is due to an evolution in global non-equilibrium, leading to self-organized criticality. At the confinement point, the initial quark-gluon medium becomes quenched by the vacuum, breaking up into all allowed free hadronic and nuclear mass states, without formation of any subsequent thermal hadronic medium.
arXiv comment11 pages, 4 figures
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