Percolation Approach to Quark-Gluon Plasma andSuppression
- 28 October 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 77 (18) , 3736-3738
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.77.3736
Abstract
It is shown that the critical threshold for percolation of the overlapping strings exchanged in heavy ion collisions can naturally explain the sharp strong suppression of shown by the experimental data on central Pb-Pb collisions, which does not occur in central O-U and S-U collisions.
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