Sudden hadronization in relativistic nuclear collisions
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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 quark-gluon-plasma supercooling prior to sudden hadronization has occurred.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 85 22 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000