Color singlet suppression of quark-gluon plasma formation
Nuclear Theory
2018-10-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The rate of quark-gluon plasma droplet nucleation in superheated hadronic matter is calculated within the MIT bag model. The requirements of color singletness and (to less extent) fixed momentum suppress the nucleation rate by many orders of magnitude, making thermal nucleation of quark-gluon plasma droplets unlikely in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions if the transition is first order and reasonably described by the bag model.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9602002,
title = {Color singlet suppression of quark-gluon plasma formation},
author = {Jes Madsen and Dan M. Jensen and Michael B. Christiansen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9602002},
year = {2018}
}
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9 pages, 3 ps figures. To appear in PhysRevC (April 1996)