2005/07/05 by Gerald E. Brown, Brown, Gerald E., Chang-Hwan Lee +4 · 2 citations
Computer Science · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions #FOS: Physical sciences #Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.nucl-th/0507011
13 pages, 6 figures
arxiv created 2005/07/05 · openalex publication_date 2005/07/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We construct the nature of the matter found in RHIC when its temperature has dropped down close to, and below, Tc. Just above Tc it is composed of extremely strongly bound quark-antiquark pairs forming chirally restored mesons of the quantum numbers of the π, S, ρ and a1 with very small size and zero energy and just below Tc, it is composed of mesons of the same quantum numbers with zero mass. We invoke infrared slavery for the former and the vector manifestation (VM) of hidden local symmetry for the latter. As the temperature drops below Tc, the strongly bound quark-antiquark pairs are ejected into what is basically a region of "hadronic freedom" in which the interactions are zero. Experimental evidences for this are seen in the STAR data.