Possible links between the liquid-gas and deconfinement-hadronization phase transitions
Abstract
It is commonly accepted that strongly interacting matter has several phase transitions in different domains of temperature and baryon density. In this contribution I discuss two most popular phase transitions which in principle can be accessed in nuclear collisions. One of them, the liquid-gas phase transition, is well established theoretically and studied experimentally in nuclear multifragmentation reactions at intermediate energies. The other one, the deconfinement-hadronization phase transition, is at the focus of present and future experimental studies with relativistic heavy-ion beams at SPS, RHIC and LHC. Pssible links between these two phase transitions are identified from the viewpoint of their manifestation in violent nuclear collisions.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0609196,
title = {Possible links between the liquid-gas and deconfinement-hadronization phase transitions},
author = {I. N. Mishustin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0609196},
year = {2009}
}
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15 pages in revtex, 2 figures, to be published in the book "Dynamics and Thermodynamics with Nuclear Degrees of Freedom" by Springer