Abstract
Heavy ion collisions at extremely high energy, such as the top energy at RHIC, exhibit the property of transparency where there is a clear separation between the almost net-baryon-free central rapidity region and the net-baryon-rich fragmentation region. We calculate the net-baryon rapidity loss and the nuclear excitation energy using the energy-momentum tensor obtained from the McLerran-Venugopalan model. Nuclear compression during the collision is further estimated using a simple space-time picture. The results show that extremely high baryon densities, about twenty times larger than the normal nuclear density, can be achieved in the fragmentation regions.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 012058 |
| Journal | Journal of Physics: Conference Series |
| Volume | 832 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Apr 25 2017 |
| Event | 7th Workshop for Young Scientists on the Physics of Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Hot Quarks 2016 - South Padre Island, United States Duration: Sep 12 2016 → Sep 17 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-FG02-87ER40328.
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