Formation and Collapse of False Vacuum Bubbles in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Details Formation and Collapse of False Vacuum Bubbles in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions Formation and Collapse of False Vacuum Bubbles in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

2001-05-25

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0105272v3

Nucl.Phys. A712 (2002) 329-356

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

32 pages, 9 figures, title changed, discussion added about equilibration of decay products of bubble wall, discussions of bary

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0375-9474(02)01168-5

It is possible that under certain situations, in a relativistic heavy-ion collision, partons may expand out forming a shell like structure. We analyze the process of hadronization in such a picture for the case when the quark-hadron transition is of first order, and argue that the inside region of such a shell must correspond to a supercooled (to $T = 0$) deconfined vacuum. Hadrons from that region escape out, leaving a bubble of pure deconfined vacuum with large vacuum energy. This bubble undergoes relativistic collapse, with highly Lorentz contracted bubble walls, and may concentrate the entire energy into extremely small regions. Eventually different portions of bubble wall collide, with the energy being released in the form of particle production. Thermalization of this system can lead to very high temperatures. With a reasonably conservative set of parameters, at LHC, the temperature of the hot spot can reach as high as 3 GeV, and well above it with more optimistic parameters. Such a hot spot can leave signals like large $P_T$ partons, dileptons, and enhanced production of heavy quarks. We also briefly discuss a speculative possibility where the electroweak symmetry may get restored in the highly dense region resulting from the decay of the bubble wall via the phenomenon of non-thermal symmetry restoration (which is usually employed in models of pre-heating after inflation). If that could happen then the possibility may arise of observing sphaleron induced baryon number violation in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

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