Baryon stopping and strange baryon enhancement in heavy ion collisions

✍ Scribed by A. Capella

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 314 KB
• Volume: 610
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9474(96)00349-1

✦ Synopsis

I discuss a new mechanism of baryon stopping based on diquark breaking. I show that this component, which leads to baryon production near mid-rapidities, increases with A and with centrality faster than the inelastic cross-section. The consequences of this novel mechanism for strange baryon enhancement are discussed.