Production of high energy density in N-bar-nucleus interactions

Conference · Wed Oct 15 04:00:00 EDT 1986 · AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5942393

Gibbs, W R

The results of an investigation of p-bar-(and to a lesser extent) d-bar-nucleus interactions are reported. The technique involves following the classical production and propagation of mesons (..pi.., K/sup +/, K/sup 0/, K/sup -/, K-bar/sup 0/, K/sup */, 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.

• Research Organization: Theoretical Division, Los Alamos Natioal Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
• OSTI ID: 5942393
• Report Number(s): CONF-860575-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States) Journal Volume: 150:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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653003* -- Nuclear Theory-- Nuclear Reactions & Scattering
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
ANTINUCLEON REACTIONS
ANTIPROTON REACTIONS
BARYON REACTIONS
BARYONS
BOSONS
BRANCHING RATIO
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ENERGY DENSITY
ENERGY RANGE
FERMIONS
GEV RANGE
GEV RANGE 01-10
HADRON REACTIONS
HADRONS
INTERACTIONS
MESONS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEI
NUCLEON REACTIONS
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
QUARK-GLUON INTERACTIONS
WAVE PROPAGATION