Evolution of baryon number density during the cosmic quark - hadron phase transition

1990
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 42 (1990) 3963-3968

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Abstract: (APS)
Recent calculations using a chromoelectric flux tube model have shown that the phase boundary between the quark-gluon plasma and the hadron gas may have a low baryon penetrability. The consequences of this result for the evolution of baryon number density during the QCD phase transition are explored, using a two-zone approximation. Very-high-amplitude baryon number density fluctuations result in a wide variety of cases; in some cases nuclear matter densities are approached, which might lead to the formation of strange matter.
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • hadron: gas
  • critical phenomena
  • baryon number: density
  • astrophysics
  • flux tube
  • matter: strangeness
  • nucleus: production
  • production: nucleus
  • numerical calculations