Baryon number diffusion and shape instabilities in the quark-hadron phase transition for heavy-ion collisions and cosmology

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May 1993

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Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology), Volume 47, Issue 10, 15 May 1993, pp.4303-4308

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Particle-Theory And Field-Theory Models Of The Early Universe, Quark-Gluon Plasma, Quarks, Gluons, And Qcd In Nuclei And Nuclear Processes

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If the quark-hadron transition is first order, hadron bubbles nucleate with a radius Rnuc and grow into the quark sea. Baryon number prefers to reside in the quark phase and must diffuse away from the interface in order for the phase transition to proceed. This slowly diffusing excess baryon number that forms on the surface of the bubble wall may drive a shape instability of the bubble wall. This instability to nonspherical structure occurs when the bubbles have grown to a critical size of (7-1000)Rnuc, a much shorter length scale than the instabilities studied previously; this effect can thus be important for heavy-ion collisions. The stability of the bubbles depends very sensitively on the ratio ɛ=nh/nq of baryon number in the two phases (in local thermodynamic equilibrium). For the expected values of the parameters, bubbles of the hadronic phase are likely to be stable in the early Universe and unstable in heavy-ion collisions. The phenomenology of heavy-ion collisions could be altered by the instability of the hadron bubbles, although future work that takes into account mutual heating effects of the bubbles and the expansion of the hot underlying plasma will be required to confirm this.

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