Chemical equilibrium in QCD gas in the early universe

Details Chemical equilibrium in QCD gas in the early universe Chemical equilibrium in QCD gas in the early universe

1993-04-20

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9304273v1

Phys.Lett. B314 (1993) 298-302

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

10 pages, 4 figures (available upon request), Plain TEX, Nordita 93/32 P

Scientific paper

10.1016/0370-2693(93)91239-J

We compute the thermally averaged $\qq$--annihilation rate into two and three gluons in the early universe. We show that at very high temperatures $\qq\to ggg$ represents only a 3\%\ correction to $\qq\to gg$. Comparing the annihilation rate to the Hubble rate, corrected for particle interactions in the Standard Model gas, we find that quarks and gluons are not in chemical equilibrium when $T\gsim 3\times 10^{14}$ GeV.

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