Hadronization via Coalescence
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چکیده
We review the quark coalescence model for hadronization in rel-ativistic heavy ion collisions and show how it can explain the observed large baryon to meson ratio at intermediate transverse momentum and scaling of the elliptic flows of identified hadrons. We also show its predictions on higher-order anisotropic flows and discuss how quark coalescence applied to open-and hidden-charm mesons can give insight to charm quark interactions in the quark-gluon plasma and J/Ψ production in heavy ion collisions.
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Parton coalescence and spacetime
The influence of spacetime dynamics in hadronization via parton coalescence at RHIC is investigated using covariant parton transport theory. Key observables, the quark number scaling of elliptic flow and the enhancement of the p/π ratio, show strong dynamical effects and differ from earlier results based on the simple coalescence formulas.
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