Signatures of fireball fragmentation at the phase transition
Nuclear Theory
2010-04-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
It is explained why and how the fireball created in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions can fragment when passing the phase transition. It can happen at the first-order phase transition but is not excluded even at high collision energies where the smooth crossover is present. Two potential observables sensitive to the appearance of fragmentation are reviewed: event-by-event changes of rapidity distributions and proton correlation in relative rapidity.
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@article{arxiv.1004.4775,
title = {Signatures of fireball fragmentation at the phase transition},
author = {Boris Tomasik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.4775},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
6 pages, proceedings from Excited QCD 2010, Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2010, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia