Phase transitions in exploding matter

Authors
Citation
In. Mishustin, Phase transitions in exploding matter, NUCL PHYS A, 681, 2001, pp. 56C-63C
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
NUCLEAR PHYSICS A
ISSN journal
03759474 → ACNP
Volume
681
Year of publication
2001
Pages
56C - 63C
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9474(20010129)681:<56C:PTIEM>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
In this talk I discuss how a first order phase transition may proceed in ra pidly expanding matter. The resulting picture is that a strong collective f low of matter will lead to the fragmentation of a metastable phase into dro plets. If the transition from quark-gluon plasma to hadron gas is of the fi rst order, it will manifest itself by strong nonstatistical fluctuations in observable hadron distributions.