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Phys Rev Lett. 2004 Mar 26;92(12):122301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.122301. Epub 2004 Mar 22.

Spinodal decomposition during the hadronization stage at RHIC?.

Physical review letters

Jørgen Randrup

Affiliations

  1. Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

PMID: 15089667 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.122301

Abstract

The expansion of strongly interacting matter formed in high-energy nuclear collisions drives the system through the region of phase coexistence. The present study examines the associated spinodal instability and finds that the degree of amplification may be sufficient for the emergence of spinodal patterns that may be utilized as a diagnostic of the hadronization phase transition.

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