Are antibaryons a signal for a phase transition in ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions?
- 1 November 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 30 (9) , 2001-2004
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.30.2001
Abstract
In this paper, it is speculated that antibaryon production in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions is a signal for a phase transition from a high-temperature Debye-screened and chirally symmetric phase to a low-temperature confined and chirally broken phase. In a chiral model for the transition where baryons are topological excitations the production of baryons and antibaryons takes place by the Kibble mechanism. A qualitative discussion of possible experimental signatures is given.Keywords
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