2008/12/31 by L. Ferroni, V. Koch · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.79.034905
published as Phys.Rev.C79:034905,2009 · Corresponds to the published version. Added few references and changed the title
We formulate a simple model for a gas of extended hadrons at zero chemical potential by taking inspiration from the compressible bag model. We show that a crossover transition qualitatively similar to lattice QCD can be reproduced by such a system by including some appropriate additional dynamics. Under certain conditions, at high temperature, the system consist of a finite number of infinitely extended bags, which occupy the entire space. In this situation the system behaves as an ideal gas of quarks and gluons.