2013/09/26 by Kouji Kashiwa, Akihiko Monnai
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Center (category theory) #Chemistry #Crystallography #Domain (mathematical analysis) #Heavy ion #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Ion #Metastability #Nuclear physics #Opacity #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Phenomenology (philosophy) #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #Quark #Quark–gluon plasma #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.89.011501
published as Phys. Rev. D 89, 011501 (2014) · 4 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2013/09/26 · openalex publication_date 2014/01/07 · arxiv updated 2014/01/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The center domain structure is revisited with the introduction of a quark contribution to understand the phenomenology in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We show that the quark contribution may allow metastable states that would lead to a natural and consistent explanation for the temperature dependencies of color opacity and viscosity. We also argue the possibility of indirect observations of the center domain structure in experiments due to a topological critical temperature.