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Non-equilibrium phenomena in the QCD phase transition

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-08-23 v1

Abstract

Within the context of the linear \s\s-model for two flavours, we investigate non-equilibrium phenomena that may occur during the QCD chiral phase transition in heavy-ion collisions. We assume that the chiral symmetry breaking is followed by a rapid quench so that the system falls out of thermal equilibrium. We study the mechanism for the amplification of the pion field during the oscillations of the \s\s-field towards and around its new minimum. We show that the pion spectrum develops a characteristic pronounced peak at low momenta.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0307260,
  title  = {Non-equilibrium phenomena in the QCD phase transition},
  author = {E. N. Saridakis and N. G. Antoniou and F. K. Diakonos and N. Tetradis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0307260},
  year   = {2017}
}

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14 pages, 8 figures, RevTex4

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