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Explosive Collisions at RHIC?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Motivated by experimental results from RHIC, we suggest how a condensate for the Polyakov loop might produce explosive behavior at the QCD phase transition. This is due to a rapid rollover of the condensate field below the transition temperature.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0102020,
  title  = {Explosive Collisions at RHIC?},
  author = {Adrian Dumitru and Robert D. Pisarski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0102020},
  year   = {2009}
}
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