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arxiv: hep-ph/0301004 · v1 · submitted 2003-01-02 · ✦ hep-ph · nucl-th

Anomalous net-baryon-rapidity spectra at RHIC

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Net-baryon rapidity distributions in central Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV per nucleon are shown to consist of three components. The nonequilibrium contributions are accounted for in a Relativistic Diffusion Model. Near midrapidity, a third fraction containing approximately 22 protons reaches local statistical equilibrium in a discontinuous transition. It may be associated with a deconfinement of the participant partons and thus, serve as a signature for Quark-Gluon Matter formation.

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