Phys. Rev. D 71, 065017 (2005) [7 pages]

Basic treatment of QCD phase transition bubble nucleation

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Leonard S. Kisslinger^* and Sameer Walawalkar^†
Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA

Mikkel B. Johnson^‡
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA

Received 10 December 2004; revised 10 February 2005; published 29 March 2005

Starting from the QCD Lagrangian and the surface tension of QCD bubbles we derive the critical size of bubbles, the nucleation probability and the nucleation site separation distance.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.065017

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.71.065017

PACS:

12.38.Lg, 12.38.Mh, 98.80.Cq

^*Electronic address: kissling@andrew.cmu.edu

^†Electronic address: sameer@andrew.cmu.edu

^‡Electronic address: mbjohnson@lanl.gov

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Phys. Rev. D 71, 065017 (2005) [7 pages]

Basic treatment of QCD phase transition bubble nucleation