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

Conference · Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 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-
• Journal Information: AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States), Vol. 150:1; Conference: 2. conference on particle and nuclear physics, Lake Louise, Canada, 26 May 1986
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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