Sudden hadronization in relativistic nuclear collisions
We formulate and study a mechanical instability criterion for sudden hadronization of dense matter fireballs formed in 158A GeV Pb-Pb collisions. Considering properties of quark-gluon matter and hadron gas we obtain the phase boundary between these two phases and demonstrate that the required deep q...
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| Published in | Physical review letters Vol. 85; no. 22; p. 4695 |
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| Main Authors | , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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United States
27.11.2000
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| Summary: | We formulate and study a mechanical instability criterion for sudden hadronization of dense matter fireballs formed in 158A GeV Pb-Pb collisions. Considering properties of quark-gluon matter and hadron gas we obtain the phase boundary between these two phases and demonstrate that the required deep quark-gluon-plasma supercooling prior to sudden hadronization has occurred. |
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| ISSN: | 1079-7114 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4695 |