Deuterons and space-momentum correlations in high energy nuclear collisions

Journal Article · Wed Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1999 · Physical Review, C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.60.031901· OSTI ID:6271074

Monreal, B; Li, Q; Sakrejda, I; Snellings, R; Spieles, C; Thomas, J; Voloshin, S; Wang, F; Xu, N ^[1]; Bass, S A ^[2]; Bleicher, M; Greiner, W; Stoecker, H ^[3]; Esumi, S ^[4]; Liu, H; Panitkin, S ^[5]; Llope, W J ^[6]; Mattiello, R ^[7]; Sorge, H ^[8]

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1. Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
2. Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 27708 (United States)
3. Institute for Theoretical Physics, J.W. Goethe-University, D-60054 Frankfurt (Germany)
4. Physics Institute, Heidelberg University, Philosophenweg 12, D-69120 Heidelberg (Germany)
5. Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242 (United States)
6. T.W. Bonner Nuclear Laboratory, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005 (United States)
7. Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen (Denmark)
8. Department of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794 (United States)

Using a microscopic transport model together with a coalescence afterburner, we study the formation of deuterons in Au+Au central collisions at [radical] (s) =200A GeV. It is found that the deuteron transverse momentum distributions are strongly affected by the nucleon space-momentum correlations, at the moment of freeze-out, which are mostly determined by the number of rescatterings. This feature is useful for studying collision dynamics at ultrarelativistic energies. [copyright] [ital 1999] [ital The American Physical Society]

• OSTI ID: 6271074
• Journal Information: Physical Review, C, Journal Name: Physical Review, C Vol. 60:3; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCAN
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ELEMENTS
ENERGY RANGE
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METALS
NUCLEAR FRAGMENTATION
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
RELATIVISTIC RANGE
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