Hot Dense Matter: Deconfinement and Clustering of Color Sources in Nuclear Collisions
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Título: | Hot Dense Matter: Deconfinement and Clustering of Color Sources in Nuclear Collisions |
Autor/a: | Scharenberg, R.P. Srivastava, B.K. Hirsch, Andrew S. Pajares Vales, Carlos |
Centro/Departamento: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Física de Partículas Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE) |
Palabras chave: | QGP | Deconfinement | |
Data: | 2018 |
Editor: | MDPI |
Cita bibliográfica: | Scharenberg, R.P.; Srivastava, B.K.; Hirsch, A.S.; Pajares, C. Hot Dense Matter: Deconfinement and Clustering of Color Sources in Nuclear Collisions. Universe 2018, 4, 96 |
Resumo: | Within the first few microseconds from after the Big Bang, the hot dense matter was in the form of the Quark Gluon Plasm (QGP) consisting of free quarks and gluons. By colliding heavy nuclei at RHIC and LHC at a velocity close to the speed of light, we were able to create the primordial matter and observe the matter after expansion and cooling. In this report we present the thermodynamics and transport coefficients obtained in the framework of clustering of color sources in both hadron-hadron and nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. Multiparticle production at high energies can be described in terms of color strings stretched between the projectile and target. At high string density single strings overlap and form color sources. This addition belongs to the non-perturbative domain of Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QGP) and manifests its most fundamental features. The Schwinger QED2 mechanism produces color neutral qq¯ pairs when color source strings break. Subsequent hardonization produces the observed hadrons. With growing energy and atomic number of the colliding nuclei the density of strings grows and more color sources form clusters in the transverse plane. At a certain critical density a macroscopic cluster appears, which marks the percolation phase transition. This is the Color String Percolation Model (CSPM). The critical density is identified as the deconfinement transition and happens at the hadronization temperature. The stochastic thermalization in pp and A-A is a consequence of the quantum tunneling through the event horizon introduced by the confining color fields, the Hawking-Unruh effect. The percolation approach within CSPM is successfully used to describe the crossover phase transition in the soft collision region. The same phenomenology when applied to both hadron-hadron and nucleus-nucleus collisions emphasizes the importance of color string density, creating a macroscopic cluster which identifies the connectivity required for a finite droplet of the QGP |
Versión do editor: | https://doi.org/10.3390/universe4090096 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21993 |
DOI: | 10.3390/universe4090096 |
ISSN: | 2218-1997 |
Dereitos: | © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
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