2019/07/31 by Minati Biswal, Sanatan Digal, P. S. Saumia · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph #hep-th #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.102.074020
published as Phys. Rev. D 102, 074020 (2020) · 24 pages, 11 figures (accepted by PRD)
arxiv created 2020/10/05 · arxiv updated 2020/11/04
We study the Z 3 meta-stable states in the Polyakov loop Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model. These states exist for temperatures above T m ~ 194 MeV and can decay via bubble nucleation. We numerically solve the bounce equation to compute the nucleation rate. We speculate that, in the context of heavy-ion collisions, the likely scenario for the decay of the meta-stable states is via spinodal decomposition.