Hadronic and electromagnetic probes of hot and dense nuclear matter

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• 作者：Cassing ; W. ; Bratkovskaya ; E.L.
• 关键词：11.30.Rd ; 12.38.Mh ; 12.40.Vv ; 21.65.+f ; 25.75.&minus ; q ; Chiral symmetries ; Quark-gluon plasma ; Vector-meson dominance ; Nuclear matter ; Relativistic heavy-ion collisions
• 刊名：Physics Reports
• 出版年：1999
• 出版时间：January 1, 1999
• 年：1999
• 卷：308
• 期：2-3
• 页码：65-233
• 全文大小：3.49 M

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We review the constraints imposed by the spontaneously broken chiral symmetry of the QCD vacuum on the hadron properties at finite temperature T and baryon density ρ_B. A restoration of chiral symmetry is indicated by the dropping of the scalar quark condensate qq""> at finite T and ρ_B in various approaches. This suggests the hadrons to become approximately massless in hot and dense nuclear matter or the vector and axial vector currents to become equal. In this respect we study the properties of hadrons – as produced in relativistic nucleus–nucleus collisions – by means of a covariant hadronic transport approach where scalar and vector hadron self-energies are taken into account explicitly which are modelled in terms of effective ‘chiral’ Lagrangians. Within this transport approach we investigate the reaction dynamics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions and analyse experimental data on π,η,K⁺,K^−,ρ,ω,φ,p and charmonium production for proton–nucleus and nucleus–nucleus collisions from SIS to SPS energies (1–200AGeV). Whereas π,η and to some extent K⁺ mesons are found not to change their properties in the nuclear medium substantially, antiprotons and antikaons do show sizeable attractive self-energies as can be extracted from their experimental abundancies and spectra. The properties of the vector mesons ρ,ω and φ at finite baryon density are investigated by their dileptonic decay; the CERES and HELIOS-3 data at SPS energies are found to be incompatible with a ‘bare’ vector meson mass scenario. Here, a description by ‘dropping’ ρ and ω masses leads to a very good reproduction of the data, however, also approaches based on more conventional hadronic interactions as pion polarizations and meson–nucleon scattering amplitudes are compatible with the present dilepton spectra at SPS energies. Constraints from dilepton studies at BEVALAC/SIS energies are investigated in all decay schemes as well as a variety of further observables that allow to disentangle the different scenarios experimentally. Furthermore, the charmonium production and suppression in proton–nucleus and nucleus–nucleus collisions is investigated within the transport approach in order to probe a possible transition to a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) phase. We finally discuss ‘optimized’ observables for an experimental investigation of the restoration of chiral symmetry and/or the phase transition to a quark-gluon plasma. Publisher: Elsevier Science Language of Publication: English Item Identifier: S0370-1573(98)00028-3 Publication Type: Article ISSN: 0370-1573 Cited by:

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1. Supported by BMBF, DFG, GSI Darmstadt and FZ Jülich.me=""footnote_2"">

2. Work supported by GSI and BMBF.