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Instability of Bubbles Near the Hadron--Quark-Gluon-Plasma Phase Transition

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-02-03 v3

Abstract

The small surface tension of the interface between hadronic and quark-gluon-plasma domains, along with a negative curvature tension, implies that the uniform plasma is unstable against spontaneous formation of hadronic bubbles. We furthermore show that spherical bubbles are not stable against small perturbations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9210225,
  title  = {Instability of Bubbles Near the Hadron--Quark-Gluon-Plasma Phase Transition},
  author = {Gideon Lana and Benjamin Svetitsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9210225},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

6 pages, Latex + 2 figures; corrected inclusion of figures