Enhancement of high PT hadrons due to collapsing Z(3) walls in heavy-ion collisions

We discuss enhancement of multiplicities of hadrons at high transverse momentum due to multiple reflections of quarks from collapsing Z(3) interfaces in the QGP produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. By modeling the dependence of effective mass of the quarks on the Polyakov loop order parameter, we evaluate the reflection coefficient of quarks from collapsing Z(3) interfaces. We use the effective potential proposed by Pisarski for the Polyakov loop to determine the profile of the Z(3) interfaces and calculate the reflection probability for quarks. We discuss the formation of a network of these Z(3) walls in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, in the QGP phase. We do a numerical simulation to calculate the modifications in the thermal transverse momentum spectra of the quarks/anti-quarks that results from a collapsing wall. We then use the recombination model to calculate the transverse momentum spectrum of final hadrons. Our results show enhancement of high P _T hadrons, with the enhancement being stronger for heavier quarks. Further, we find that due to larger reflection coefficient for heavier quarks, the density of strange and charm quarks/anti-quarks increases inside the collapsing walls. This implies enhancement in the multiplicities of multi-strange and multi-charmed hadrons.