Hadron yields in Au plus Au/Pb plus Pb at RHIC and LHC from thermalized minijets

Citation
N. Hammon et al., Hadron yields in Au plus Au/Pb plus Pb at RHIC and LHC from thermalized minijets, J PHYS G-NU, 26(8), 2000, pp. 1283-1289
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
ISSN journal
09543899 → ACNP
Volume
26
Issue
8
Year of publication
2000
Pages
1283 - 1289
Database
ISI
SICI code
0954-3899(200008)26:8<1283:HYIAPA>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
We calculate the yields of a variety of hadrons for RHIC and LHC energies a ssuming thermodynamical equilibration of the minijets produced, and using a s input results from pQCD for the energy densities at midrapidity. In the c alculation of the production of partons and of transverse energy one has to account for nuclear shadowing. By using two parametrizations for the gluon shadowing one derives energy densities differing strongly in magnitude. We link those perturbatively calculated energy densities of partons via entro py conservation in an ideal fluid to the hadron multiplicities at chemical freeze-out.