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Re-Hardening of Hadron Transverse Mass Spectra in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

N. Otuka, P. K. Sahu, M. Isse, Y. Nara, A. Ohnishi

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0102051

Abstract

We analyze the spectra of pions and protons in heavy-ion collisions at relativistic energies from 2 A GeV to 65+65 A GeV by using a jet-implemented hadron-string cascade model. In this energy region, hadron transverse mass spectra first show softening until SPS energies, and re-hardening may emerge at RHIC energies. Since hadronic matter is expected to show only softening at higher energy densities, this re-hardening of spectra can be interpreted as a good signature of the quark-gluon plasma formation.

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