Anomalous diffusion of pions at RHIC

After pointing out the difference between normal and anomalous diffusion, we consider a hadron resonance cascade (HRC) model simulation for particle emission at RHIC and point out that rescattering in an expanding hadron resonance gas leads to a heavy tail in the source distribution. The results are...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Csanád, M., Csörgo, T. [UNESP], Nagy, M.
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2007
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Repository:Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/24710
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-97332007000600018
http://hdl.handle.net/11449/24710
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Correlations
Femtoscopy
Rescattering
Anomalous diffusion
Stable distributions
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Summary:After pointing out the difference between normal and anomalous diffusion, we consider a hadron resonance cascade (HRC) model simulation for particle emission at RHIC and point out that rescattering in an expanding hadron resonance gas leads to a heavy tail in the source distribution. The results are compared to recent PHENIX measurements of the tail of the particle emitting source in Au+Au collisions at RHIC. In this context, we show how can one distinguish experimentally the anomalous diffusion of hadrons from a second order QCD phase transition.