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Sudden Hadronization in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v4 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We formulate and study a mechanical instability criterion for sudden hadronization of dense matter fireballs formed in 158A GeV Pb--Pb collisions. Considering properties of quark-gluon matter and hadron gas we obtain the phase boundary between these two phases and demonstrate that the required deep QGP supercooling prior to sudden hadronization has occurred.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0006200,
  title  = {Sudden Hadronization in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions},
  author = {Johann Rafelski and Jean Letessier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0006200},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages incl. 2 figures

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