Signatures of fireball fragmentation at the phase transition

2010/04/27 by Boris Tomášik, Boris Tomasik, Tomasik, Boris
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Nuclear physics research studies #earthquake and tectonic studies #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1004.4775

6 pages, proceedings from Excited QCD 2010, Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2010, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia

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Abstract

It is explained why and how the fireball created in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions can fragment when passing the phase transition. It can happen at the first-order phase transition but is not excluded even at high collision energies where the smooth crossover is present. Two potential observables sensitive to the appearance of fragmentation are reviewed: event-by-event changes of rapidity distributions and proton correlation in relative rapidity.

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