Dense Cold Quark–Gluon Matter Clusters and Their Study at the NICA Collider

Abstract

In this paper, the production of particles outside the region of nucleon–nucleon kinematics due to interactions involving dense cold clusters of quark-gluon matter in nuclei is calculated. The possibility of observing this process in the region of central rapidities and large transverse momenta in heavy ion collisions at low energies with MPD detector at the NICA collider is demonstrated.

Keywords

• strong interaction
• high energy
• dense cold nuclear matter
• quark–gluon clusters
• multinucleon fluctons
• cumulative particle production