Beyond the Parton Cascade Model: Klaus Kinder-Geiger and VNI

Journal Article · Fri Jul 02 04:00:00 EDT 1999 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.59571· OSTI ID:21208271

Mueller, Berndt ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0305 (United States)

I review Klaus Kinder-Geiger's contributions to the physics of relativistic heavy ion collisions, in particular, the Parton Cascade Model. Klaus developed this model in order to provide a QCD-based description of nucleus-nucleus reactions at high energies such as they will soon become available at the Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The PCM describes the collision dynamics within the early and dense phase of the reaction in terms of the relativistic, probabilistic transport of perturbative excitations (partons) of the QCD vacuum. I will present an overview of the current state of the numerical implementations of this model, as well as its predictions for nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC.

• OSTI ID: 21208271
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 482; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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