Color singlet suppression of quark-gluon plasma formation
- 1 April 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review C
- Vol. 53 (4) , 1883-1885
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.53.1883
Abstract
The rate of quark-gluon plasma droplet nucleation in superheated hadronic matter is calculated within the MIT bag model. The requirements of color singletness and (to less extent) fixed momentum suppress the nucleation rate by many orders of magnitude, making thermal nucleation of quark-gluon plasma droplets unlikely in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions if the transition is first order and reasonably described by the bag model. © 1996 The American Physical Society.Keywords
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