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View SchemaDensity inhomogeneities in heavy ion collisions around the critical point
| Authors | Kerstin Paech, Adrian Dumitru |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/0504003 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0504003 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.physletb.2005.08.006 |
| Journal | Phys.Lett. B623 (2005) 200-207 |
Abstract
We study the hydrodynamical expansion of a hot and baryon-dense quark fluid coupled to classical real-time evolution of the long wavelength modes of the chiral field. Significant density inhomogeneities develop dynamically when the transition to the symmetry-broken state occurs. We find that the amplitude of the density inhomogeneities is larger for expansion trajectories crossing the line of first-order transitions than for crossovers, which could provide some information on the location of a critical point. A few possible experimental signatures for inhomogeneous decoupling surfaces are mentioned briefly.
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