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Title: Particle production within the quark meson coupling model

Journal Article · · Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata-700 032 (India)
  2. Depto de Fisica, CFM, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, SC, C. P. 476, CEP 88040-900 (Brazil)
  3. Centro de Fisica Computacional, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, 3004-516 Coimbra (Portugal)

Quark-meson coupling (QMC) models can be successfully applied to the description of compact star properties in nuclear astrophysics as well as to nuclear matter. In the regime of hot hadronic matter very few calculations exist using the QMC model, in particular when applied to particle yields in heavy ion collisions. In the present work, we identify the free energy of the bag with the effective mass of the baryons and we calculate the particle production yields on a Au+Au collision at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) with the QMC model and compare them with results obtained previously with other relativistic models. A smaller temperature for the fireball, T=132 MeV, is obtained because of the smaller effective baryon masses predicted by QMC. QMC was also applied to the description of particle yields at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) in Pb+Pb collisions.

OSTI ID:
21293767
Journal Information:
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Vol. 80, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.80.014905; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2813
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English