Does the quark-gluon plasma contain stable hadronic bubbles?
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v1 Astrophysics
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We calculate the thermodynamic potential of bubbles of hadrons embedded in quark-gluon plasma, and of droplets of quark-gluon plasma embedded in hadron phase. This is a generalization of our previous results to the case of non-zero chemical potentials. As in the zero chemical potential case, we find that a quark-gluon plasma in thermodynamic equilibrium may contain stable bubbles of hadrons of radius fm. The calculations are performed within the MIT Bag model, using an improved multiple reflection expansion. The results are of relevance for neutron star phenomenology and for ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0003176,
title = {Does the quark-gluon plasma contain stable hadronic bubbles?},
author = {Gregers Neergaard and Jes Madsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0003176},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages including 8 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. D