1993/07/22 by A. A. Coley, Thomas Trappenberg, T. Trappenberg · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #astro-ph #hep-lat
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.50.4881
published as Phys.Rev. D50 (1994) 4881-4885 · 8 pages, LaTeX
arxiv created 1993/07/22 · openalex publication_date 1994/10/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We review recent lattice QCD results for the surface tension at the finite temperature quark-hadron phase transition and discuss their implications on the possible scale of inhomogeneities. In the quenched approximation the average distance between nucleating centers is smaller than the diffusion length of a proton, so that inhomogeneities are washed out by the time nucleosynthesis sets in. At present lattice results are inconclusive when dynamical fermions are included.