The Maximum lifetime of the quark - gluon plasma
Sep, 199522 pages
Published in:
- Nucl.Phys.A 597 (1996) 701-726
e-Print:
- nucl-th/9509040 [nucl-th]
Report number:
- CU-TP-706
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Abstract:
The width of the deconfinement transition region is shown to influence strongly the flow structure in the (Landau-) hydrodynamical expansion of a quark-gluon plasma. For a sharp first order transition () the mixed phase is rather long-lived, with a lifetime that has a maximum when the initial energy density is at the phase boundary between mixed and pure quark-gluon matter. For increasing , however, the lifetime decreases rapidly. Hadronic matter, however, remains long-lived as a consequence of the rapid change in the degrees of freedom in the transition region and the corresponding ``softening'' of the equation of state.- quark gluon: plasma
- critical phenomena: confinement
- expansion: hydrodynamics
- lifetime
- energy: density
- entropy: density
- temperature
- numerical calculations
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