Recombination

• Two competing processes for hadron production

  • Jet fragmentation
  • Recombination of 3 quarks or a quark/anti-quark pair in a densely populated phase space

• Fries et al.:

  • In case of thermalized partons fragmentation wins over recombination only above 5 GeV/c
  • Explains p/p ratio
  • “Such a phase may be appropriately called a QGP”