Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Abstract:
The maximum baryon and energy densities reached in the fragmentation regions of nuclear collisions are estimated with a new hydrodynamical model. Unlike previous models where recoil is included as a source term for the baryon current, in our model the baryon current is strictly conserved. The parameters of the model are furthermore adjusted to take into account the large baryon rapidity shifts observed recently in p + A → p + X. The implications for the production of high baryon density quark-gluon plasmas are discussed.