Time Limit for Hadronic Phase Transition

Jan, 1983
4 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 124 (1983) 317,
  • Phys.Lett.B 125 (1983) 518 (erratum)
  • Published: 1983
Report number:
  • Print-83-0058 (WEST INDIES)

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The evolution of the Robertson-Walker scale factor R ( t ) during a first order phase transition from a quark-gluon plasma phase to a hadronic phase is investigated. In the k = 0 case R ( t ) is found to be oscillatory, a behaviour which sets an upper limit Δt m to the time allowed for estimates of the actual transition time. Furthermore, Δt m and the transition time are found to be fairly insensitive to the quark-gluon equation of state at a given transition temperature.
  • ASTROPHYSICS
  • QUARK GLUON: PLASMA
  • MATTER: HADRONIC
  • THERMODYNAMICS: CRITICAL PHENOMENA
  • Einstein equation
  • NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS
  • TABLES