https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2005-10310-1
Quark-Gluon-Plasma Thermalization
The role of noise and dissipation in the hadronization of the quark-gluon plasma
Instituto de Fısica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, C.P. 68528, RJ 21941-972, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
* e-mail: fraga@if.ufrj.br
Received:
26
October
2005
Accepted:
2
January
2006
Published online:
4
September
2006
We discuss the role of noise and dissipation in the explosive spinodal decomposition scenario of hadron production during the chiral transition after a high-energy heavy-ion collision. We use a Langevin description inspired by nonequilibrium field theory to perform real-time lattice simulations of the behavior of the chiral fields. Preliminary results for the interplay between additive and multiplicative noise terms, as well as for non-Markovian corrections, are also presented.
PACS: 25.75.-q Relativistic heavy-ion collisions – / 11.30.Rd Chiral symmetries – / 05.70.-a Thermodynamics – / 64.90.+b Other topics in equations of state, phase equilibria, and phase transitions –
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