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Dynamical growth of the hadron bubbles during the quark-hadron phase transition

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-25 v2

Abstract

The rate of dynamical growth of the hadron bubbles in a supercooled baryon free quark-gluon plasma, is evaluated by solving the equations of relativistic fluid dynamics in all regions. For a non-viscous plasma, this dynamical growth rate is found to depend only on the range of correlation ξ\xi of order parameter fluctuation, and the radius RR of the critical hadron bubble, the two length scales relevant for the description of the critical phenomena. Further, it is shown that the dynamical prefactor acquires an additive component when the medium becomes viscous. Interestingly, under certain reasonable assumption for the velocity of the sound in the medium around the saddle configuration, the viscous and the non-viscous parts of the prefactor are found to be similar to the results obtained by Csernai-Kapusta and Ruggeri-Friedman (for the case of zero viscosity) respectively.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0005219,
  title  = {Dynamical growth of the hadron bubbles during the quark-hadron phase transition},
  author = {P. Shukla and A. K. Mohanty and S. K. Gupta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0005219},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

RevTeX, 11 pages including 4 Postscript figures, major revision, Version without section IV is to appear in Physical Review D