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Production of high energy density in anti N-nucleus interactions

Conference ·
OSTI ID:5451558
The results of an investigation of anti p- (and to a lesser extent) anti d- nucleus interactions are reported. The technique involves following the classical production and propagation of mesons (..pi..,K/sup +/, K/sup 0/, K/sup -/, K/sup 0/, K*, eta, ..omega.., phi) and baryons (N,..lambda..,..sigma..) in nuclei after antiparticle annihilation. It is found that small regions of the nucleus can be raised to sufficiently high energy densities that some predictions of a quark-gluon phase transition can be tested with the use of energetic antiprotons (5-10 GeV/c). the strangeness signal is examined and compared with the amount of strangeness produced in a recent experiment with 4 GeV/c incident antiprotons. A general expression is given for the total amount of strangeness produced which is invariant under intranuclear strangeness exchange reactions. 7 refs., 6 figs., 3 tabs.
Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
5451558
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-86-2619; CONF-860575-27; ON: DE86013822
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English