https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2005-10307-8
Quark-Gluon-Plasma Thermalization
Hadronization of expanding QGP
1
Department of Physics, University of Arizona, 85718, Tucson, AZ, USA
2
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Université Paris 7, 2 place Jussieu, 75251, Paris Cedex 05, France
* e-mail: rafelski@physics.arizona.edu
Received:
4
November
2005
Accepted:
2
January
2006
Published online:
29
August
2006
We discuss how the dynamics of an exploding hot fireball of quark-gluon matter impacts the actual phase transition conditions between the deconfined and confined state of matter. We survey the chemical conditions prevailing at hadronization.
PACS: 12.38.Mh Quark-gluon plasma – / 24.10.Pa Thermal and statistical models – / 25.75.-q Relativistic heavy-ion collisions –
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag, 2006
