Evidence for a QCD accelerator in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
arXiv:2110.09432 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.106.034902
Abstract
We report measurements of forward jets produced in Cu+Au collisions at GeV at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The jet-energy distributions extend to energies much larger than expected by Feynman scaling. This constitutes the first clear evidence for Feynman-scaling violations in heavy-ion collisions. Such high-energy particle production has been in models via QCD string interactions, but so far is untested by experiment. One such model calls this a hadronic accelerator. Studies with a particular heavy-ion event generator (HIJING) show that photons and mesons exhibit such very high-energy production in a heavy-ion collision, so {\it QCD accelerator} appropriately captures the physics associated with such QCD string interactions. All models other than HIJING used for hadronic interactions in the study of extensive air showers from cosmic rays either do not include these QCD string interactions, or have smaller effects from the QCD accelerator.
arXiv commentAs accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C
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