Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 182302 (2001) [4 pages]Explosive Decomposition in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion CollisionsReceived 29 March 2001; published 15 October 2001 Recent results from Au+Au collisions at BNL RHIC energy hint at explosive hadron production at the QCD transition rather than soft hydrodynamic evolution. We speculate that this is due to a rapid variation of the effective potential for QCD close to Tc. Performing real-time lattice simulations of an effective theory we show that the fast evolution of the potential leads to “explosive” spinodal decomposition rather than bubble nucleation or critical slowing down. © 2001 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.182302
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.182302
PACS:
25.75.-q, 11.30.Rd, 12.38.Mh, 12.39.Fe
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