Center Domains and their Phenomenological Consequences

2012/08/31 by Masayuki Asakawa, Steffen A. Bass, Berndt Müller · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Deconfinement #Domain (mathematical analysis) #Epistemology #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Ideal (ethics) #Nuclear physics #Opacity #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Phenomenological model #Philosophy #Physics #Plasma #QCD matter #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Quark–gluon plasma #Strange matter #Theoretical physics #hep-ph #nucl-th

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Abstract

We argue that the domain structure of deconfined QCD matter, which can be inferred from the properties of the Polyakov loop, can simultaneously explain the two most prominent experimentally verified features of the quark-gluon plasma, namely its large opacity as well as its near ideal fluid properties.

Citations

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