PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION IN THE DYNAMICAL STRING-PARTON MODEL OF RELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS

Abstract

The dynamical string-parton model for relativistic heavy-ion collisions is generalized to include particle identification of the final-state hadrons by phenomenologically quantizing the masses of the classical strings which result from string breaking. General features of the Nambu-Gotō strings are used to motivate a model that identifies a mass window near the physical mass of a meson, and does not allow the string to decay further if its mass falls within the window. Data from e+e- collisions in the region [Formula: see text] to 30 GeV are well reproduced by this model.