Percolation approach to phase transitions in high energy nuclear collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We study continuum percolation in nuclear collisions for the realistic case in which the nuclear matter distribution is not uniform over the collision volume, and show that the percolation threshold is increased compared to the standard, uniform situation. In terms of quark-gluon plasma formation this means that the phase transition threshold is pushed to higher energies.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9812364,
title = {Percolation approach to phase transitions in high energy nuclear collisions},
author = {A. Rodrigues and R. Ugoccioni and J. Dias de Deus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9812364},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, 4 figures (PS), LaTeX2e using fontenc, amsmath, epsfig