Effect of Different SU(3) Color Representations on the Nucleation of Quark-Gluon Plasma Droplets from a Hadronic Gas

• Authors: K. Mezouar , A. Ait El Djoudi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We study the nucleation of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) droplets from the hadronic gas phase, based on the calculation of the difference in free energy in the QGP and hadronic gas phases. We investigate this difference in free energy by modeling it in different cases, when the surface tension of the QGP bubble is considered or not. We calculate the free energies of both hadronic gas consisting of massive pions and plasma droplet with up, down and strange quarks additionally to gluons, for different SU ≤ft( 3 ıght) color representations of the QGP, namely the color singlet, color octet, and color 27-plet. The behavior of the obtained change in free energy is examined with varying radius of the QGP bubble, and at different temperatures. The effect of the surface contribution on the nucleated bubble is also investigated and compared to the case without this contribution.

Keywords

EN

12.38.Mh; 64.60.Qb; 02.20.-a; 05.70.Ce

Discipline

• 05.70.Ce: Thermodynamic functions and equations of state(see also 51.30.+i Thermodynamic properties, equations of state in physics of gases; for equations of state of specific substances, see 64.30.-t; for equations of state of nuclear matter, and of neutron-star matter, see 21.65.Mn and 26.60.Kp, respectively; see also 95.30.Tg in astronomy; for thermodynamic properties of superconductors, see 74.25.Bt)
• 12.38.Mh: Quark-gluon plasma(see also 25.75.Nq Quark deconfinement, quark-gluon plasma production and phase transitions in relativistic heavy ion collisions; see also 21.65.Qr Quark matter)
• 02.20.-a: Group theory(for algebraic methods in quantum mechanics, see 03.65.Fd; for symmetries in elementary particle physics, see 11.30.-j)

• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 130
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 202-205

Dates

published

2016-07

Contributors

author

K. Mezouar

• Laboratoire de Physique des Particules et Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Vieux-Kouba, B.P. 92, 16050, Algiers, Algeria

author

A. Ait El Djoudi

• Laboratoire de Physique des Particules et Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Vieux-Kouba, B.P. 92, 16050, Algiers, Algeria

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.130.202