{
  "id": "hep-ph/0212046",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2002-12-03T14:39:13.000Z",
  "updated": "2002-12-03T14:39:13.000Z",
  "title": "Parton Percolation in Nuclear Collisions",
  "authors": [
    "H. Satz"
  ],
  "comment": "15 pages, 18 figures; Lectures at the International School of Physics \"Enrico Fermi\", Varenna/Italy, 6.-16. 8. 2002",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "An essential prerequisite for quark-gluon plasma production in nuclear collisions is cross-talk between the partons from different nucleons in the colliding nuclei. The initial density of partons is determined by the parton distribution functions obtained from deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering and by the nuclear geometry; it increases with increasing $A$ and/or $\\sqrt s$. In the transverse collision plane, this results in clusters of overlapping partons, and at some critical density, the cluster size suddenly reaches the size of the system. The onset of large-scale cross-talk through color connection thus occurs as geometric critical behavior. Percolation theory specifies the details of this transition, which leads to the formation of a condensate of deconfined partons. Given sufficient time, this condensate could eventually thermalize. However, already the onset of parton condensation in the initial state, without subsequent thermalization, leads to a number of interesting observable consequences.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2002-12-03T14:39:13.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "nuclear collisions",
      "parton percolation",
      "quark-gluon plasma production",
      "transverse collision plane",
      "parton distribution functions"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "lecture notes",
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.3254/978-1-61499-009-3-385"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 15,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 603624,
      "adsabs": "2002hep.ph...12046S"
    }
  }
}