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arxiv: 0905.1448 · v1 · submitted 2009-05-10 · ⚛️ nucl-th

Exploring behaviors of partonic matter forming in early stage of pp and nucleus-nucleus collisions at ultra-relativistic energies

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The parton yield, (pseudo)rapidity distribution, and transverse momentum distribution in partonic matter assumed forming in the early stage of $pp$ and nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC energy ($\sqrt{s_{{NN}}}$=200 GeV) and LHC energy ($\sqrt{s_{{NN}}}$=5.5 TeV for nucleus-nucleus, 5.5 and/or 14 TeV for $pp$) are comparatively investigated with parton and hadron cascade model PACIAE. It turned out that the different parton and anti-parton spectra approach to be similar with reaction energy increasing from RHIC to LHC. We have argued that if the partonic matter forming in Au+Au collisions at RHIC energy is strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma, the one forming in Pb+Pb collisions at LHC energy might approach the real (free) quark-gluon plasma.

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