Explosive Decomposition in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collision
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-07 v2 Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
Recent results from Au+Au collisions at BNL-RHIC energy hint at explosive hadron production at the QCD transition rather than soft hydrodynamic evolution. We speculate that this is due to a rapid variation of the effective potential for QCD close to Tc. Performing real-time lattice simulations of an effective theory we show that the fast evolution of the potential leads to ``explosive'' spinodal decomposition rather than bubble nucleation or critical slowing down.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0103219,
title = {Explosive Decomposition in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collision},
author = {O. Scavenius and A. Dumitru and A. D. Jackson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0103219},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages latex and 10 figures, Version accepted for PRL (but page 5 containing additional 6 figures will not appear in PRL)