Hadronic Transport Model with a Phase Transition
Abstract
We specify a tractable transport model with thermodynamic properties close to those expected for the strongly interacting matter. In particular, at high temperatures, the matter undergoes a phase transition, such as to the quark-gluon plasma, with a drop in masses of elementary excitations and a rapid increase in the number of degrees of freedom. We show that a softening of the equation of state such as associated with the transition to quark-gluon plasma should be observable in the elliptic-flow excitation function from heavy-ion reactions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9808013,
title = {Hadronic Transport Model with a Phase Transition},
author = {P. Danielewicz and P. -B. Gossiaux and R. A. Lacey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9808013},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Talk given at the Workshop on Nuclear Matter in Different Phases and Transitions, Les Houches, March 31 - April 10, 1998; 16 pages, 10 Postscript figures, LateX requires crkpab.sty, graphicx.sty, and amssymb.sty