Nuclear effects in J//psi/ and lepton-pair production
High-energy processes in nuclear media provide important tests of quantum chromodynamics, since in principle one can use the nuclear environment to perturb and study the mechanisms involved in confinement and hadronization. In this talk several examples of nuclear effects in QCD will be discussed that affect the propagation and hadronization of quarks and gluons in nuclear matter. The issues include: possible signatures for quark-gluon plasma formation in heavy ion collisions, particularly J//psi/ production; hadronization due to jet coalescence; the limits of validity of QCD factorization formulae due to initial- and final-state interactions; formation zone physics; shadowing of the quark and gluon structure functions of nuclei; and color transparency in hard quasielastic reactions inside of nuclei. 29 refs., 4 figs.
- Research Organization:
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 6669872
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-4713; CONF-880867-8; ON: DE89002844
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 24. international Rochester conference on high energy physics, Munich, F.R. Germany, 4 Aug 1988; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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