Basic treatment of QCD phase transition bubble nucleation

2005/03/16 by Leonard S. Kisslinger, Sameer Walawalkar, Mikkel B. Johnson · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.71.065017

published as Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 065017 · 8 pages, one figure

arxiv created 2005/03/16 · openalex publication_date 2005/03/29 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Starting from the QCD Lagrangian and the surface tension of QCD bubbles we derive the critical size of bubbles, the nucleation probability and the nucleation site separation distance.

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