Criticality in quark-gluon systems far beyond thermal and chemical equilibrium
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
Experimental evidence and theoretical arguments for the existence of self-organized criticality in systems of gluons and quarks are presented. It is observed that the existing data for high-transverse-momentum jet-production exhibit striking regularities; and it is shown that, together with first-principle considerations, such regularities can be used, not only to probe the possible compositness of quarks, but also to obtain {\em direct evidence} for, or against, the existence of critical temperature and/or critical chemical potential in quark-gluon systems when hadrons are squeezed together.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0009034,
title = {Criticality in quark-gluon systems far beyond thermal and chemical equilibrium},
author = {Fu Jinghua and Meng Ta-chung and R. Rittel and K. Tabelow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0009034},
year = {2009}
}
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13 pages, including 1 figure and 1 table