Explosive collisions at RHIC?

2001/02/02 by Adrian Dumitru, A. Dumitru, Robert D. Pisarski +1 · 6 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0375-9474(01)01400-2

published as Nucl.Phys. A698 (2002) 444-447

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Abstract

Motivated by experimental results from RHIC, we suggest how a condensate for the Polyakov loop might produce explosive behavior at the QCD phase transition. This is due to a rapid rollover of the condensate field below the transition temperature.

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