Color singlet suppression of quark-gluon plasma formation

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1 February 1996

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.nucl-th/9602002

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.

Keywords

SINGLET SUPPRESSION
QUARK GLUON PLASMA
COLOR SINGLETNESS
PLASMA FORMATION
NUCLEATION

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Version 1, 1996-02-01, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review C, 53 (4), 1883.

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