Explosive decomposition in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions - art. no. 182302

Authors
Scavenius, O Dumitru, A Jackson, AD
Citation
O. Scavenius et al., Explosive decomposition in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions - art. no. 182302, PHYS REV L, 8718(18), 2001, pp. 2302
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
8718
Issue
18
Year of publication
2001
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(20011029)8718:18<2302:EDIUHC>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
Recent results from Au+Au collisions at BNL RMC energy hint at explosive ha dron production at the QCD transition rather than soft hydrodynamic evoluti on. We speculate that this is due to a rapid variation of the effective pot ential for QCD close to T-c. Performing real-time lattice simulations of an effective theory we show that the fast evolution of the potential leads to "explosive" spinodal decomposition rather than bubble nucleation or critic al slowing down.