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| Authors | D. E. Kahana, S. H. Kahana |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/9804022 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9804022 |
| DOI | 10.1016/S0375-9474(98)00313-3 |
| Journal | Nucl.Phys.A639:465-474,1998 |
Abstract
A two phase cascade, LUCIFER II, developed for the treatment of ultra high energy ion-ion collisions is applied to the production of strangeness at SPS energies $\sqrt{s}=17-20$. This simulation is able to simultaneously describe both hard processes such as Drell-Yan and slower, soft processes such as the production of light mesons, including strange mesons, by separating the dynamics into two steps, a fast cascade involving only nucleons in the original colliding relativistic ions followed, after an appropriate delay, by multiscattering of the resulting excited baryons and mesons produced virtually in the first step. No energy loss can take place in the short time interval over which the first cascade takes place. The chief result is a reconciliation of the important Drell-Yan measurements with the apparent success of standard cascades to describe the nucleon stopping and meson production in heavy ion experiments at the CERN SPS. A byproduct, obtained here in preliminary calculations, is a description of strangeness production in the collision of massive ions.
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