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View SchemaPhase transitions in isolated strongly interacting systems
| Authors | M. Veselsky |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/0703077 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0703077 |
| DOI | 10.1142/S0218301308010866 |
| Journal | International Journal of Modern Physics E 17 (2008) 1883 |
Abstract
Thermodynamical properties of the nuclear matter at sub-saturation densities were investigated using a simple van der Waals-like equation of state with an additional term representing the symmetry energy. First-order isospin-asymmetric liquid-gas phase transition appears restricted to isolated isospin-asymmetric systems while the symmetric systems will undergo fragmentation decay resembling the second-order phase transition. The density dependence of the symmetry energy scaling with the Fermi energy satisfactorily describes the symmetry energy at sub-saturation nuclear densities. The deconfinement-confinement phase transition from the quark-gluon plasma to the confined quark matter appears in the isolated systems continuous in energy density while discontinuous in quark density. A transitional state of the confined quark matter has a negative pressure and after hadronization an explosion scenario can take place which can offer explanation for the HBT puzzle as a signature of the phase transition.
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