Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 1122–1125 (1985)

φ-Meson Production as a Probe of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

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Asher Shor^*
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, and Department of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024

Received 24 August 1984; published in the issue dated 18 March 1985

The formation of the quark-gluon plasma in relativistic nuclear collisions may be determined by enhanced production of φ mesons. This enhancement would result from the absence of the Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka suppression which inhibits φ production in ordinary p-p and π-p collisions, and from a large abundance of strange quarks in the plasma. The φ will not rescatter significantly in the subsequent expanding hadronic phase and would thereby retain information on the conditions of the hot plasma.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.54.1122

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.54.1122

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25.70.Np, 12.35.Ht, 21.65.+f

^*Present address: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N. Y. 11973.

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φ-Meson Production as a Probe of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

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