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Additive quark model of multiparticle production and nucleus-nucleus collisions at high energies

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5632543
An extension of the additive quark model of hadron-hadron and hadron-nucleus collisions to the case of nucleus-nucleus interactions at very high energies is presented. Estimates are given of the number of wounded and spectator quarks, and of the number of colored strings spanned between interacting nuclei. These estimates indicate the possibility of a rich structure of the spectra of produced particles and an increase (relative to the nucleon-nucleon case) of multiplicities up to a factor approx. 50 in collisions of heavy nuclei.
Research Organization:
Illinois Univ., Urbana (USA). Dept. of Physics
OSTI ID:
5632543
Report Number(s):
NP-2901207; ON: DE82901207
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English