Density Perturbations in Heavy-Ion Collisions below the Critical Point

2004/02/12 by A. Dumitru, Dumitru, A., K. Paech +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.nucl-th/0402038

1 page, 1 figure, contribution to the GSI annual report 2003

arxiv created 2004/02/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Heavy ion collisions at large baryon density may exhibit a first order phase transition from a chirally symmetric phase to the symmetry broken ground state. This should then lead to large density inhomogeneities, which affect the relative hadron multiplicities.

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