Detecting a First-Order Transition in the QCD Phase Diagram with Baryon-Baryon Correlations
Nuclear Theory
2015-03-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
We suggest baryon-baryon correlations as an experimentally accessible signature for a first-order phase transition between a baryon-rich phase, like quarkyonic, and a baryon-suppressed hadronic phase in the QCD phase diagram. We examine the consequences of baryon-rich bubble formation in an expanding medium and show how the two-particle correlations vary in the transverse and longitudinal direction depending on the strength of the radial flow, the bubble temperature, and the time when the baryons are emitted.
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@article{arxiv.0908.3983,
title = {Detecting a First-Order Transition in the QCD Phase Diagram with Baryon-Baryon Correlations},
author = {Agnes Mocsy and Paul Sorensen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.3983},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Revised published version, 6 pages in PLB