Collective behaviour of partons could be a source of energetic hadrons

TL;DR

The paper explores how collective behavior of quarks and partons in high-density environments, such as massive stars, could produce energetic hadrons and contribute to ultra-high-energy cosmic rays through coherent interactions.

Contribution

It proposes a novel mechanism where collective parton behavior in dense media leads to energetic particle production, linking heavy ion collision data to cosmic ray origins.

Findings

Collective parton interactions can produce high-energy hadrons.

Dense media in stars may generate super high-energy cosmic rays.

Coherent interactions enable energy transfer to produced particles.

Abstract

We discuss the idea that collective behaviour of the quarks/partons, which has been intensely discussed for the last 40 years in relativistic hadron-nuclear and nuclear-nuclear interactions and confirmed by new data coming from the ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions, can lead to energetic particle production. Created from hadronization of the quark/parton (or quarks/partons), energetic particles could get the energy of grouped partons from coherent interactions. Therefore, we think that in the centre of some massive stars, a medium with high density, close to Quantum Chromodynamic one could be a source of the super high-energy cosmic rays.