Possible Cosmological Implications of the Quark-Hadron Phase Transition

Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

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19 pages, LaTeX, 5 Postscript figures included. Submitted to Journal of Physics G

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10.1088/0954-3899/26/6/302

We study the quark-hadron phase transition within an effective model of QCD, and find that in a reasonable range of the main parameters of the model, bodies with quark content between $10^{-2}$ and 10 solar masses can have been formed in the early universe. In addition, we show that a significant amount of entropy is released during the transition. This may imply the existence of a higher baryon number density than what is usually expected at temperatures above the QCD scale. The cosmological QCD transition may then provide a natural way for decreasing the high baryon asymmetry created by an Affleck-Dine like mechanism down to the value required by primordial nucleosynthesis.

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