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Sudden Hadronization in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Johann Rafelski, Jean Letessier

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0006200

Abstract

We formulate and study a mechanical instability criterion for sudden hadronization of dense matter fireballs formed in 158A GeV Pb--Pb collisions. Considering properties of quark-gluon matter and hadron gas we obtain the phase boundary between these two phases and demonstrate that the required deep QGP supercooling prior to sudden hadronization has occurred.

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