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Title: High nuclear temperatures by antimatter-matter annihilation

Conference ·
OSTI ID:5598437

It is suggested that the quark-gluon phase be created through the use of antiproton or antideuteron beams. The first advantage to this method, using higher energy antiprotons than 1.5 GeV/c, is that the higher momenta antiprotons penetrate more deeply so that mesons produced are more nearly contained within the nucleus. Another advantage is that the annihilation products are very forward-peaked and tend to form a beam of mesons so that the energy density does not disperse very rapidly. Calculations were performed using the intranuclear cascade to try to follow the process of annihilation in some detail. The intranuclear cascade type calculation method is compared to the hydrodynamic approach. 8 refs., 8 figs. (LEW)

Research Organization:
Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
5598437
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-85-2075; CONF-850315-8; ON: DE85014113
Resource Relation:
Conference: Conference on antinucleon and nucleon-nucleus interactions, Telluride, CO, USA, 18 Mar 1985
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English