Interacting color strings as the origin of the liquid behavior of the quark-gluon plasma Articles uri icon

authors

  • RAMIREZ, JHONY
  • DIAZ JIMENEZ, BOGAR
  • PAJARES, CARLOS

publication date

  • May 2021

start page

  • 094029

issue

  • 9

volume

  • 103

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 2470-0010

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 2470-0029

abstract

  • We study the radial distribution function of the color sources (strings) formed in hadronic collisions and the requirements to obtain a liquid. As a repulsive interaction is needed, we incorporate a concentric core in the strings as well as the probability that a string allows core-core overlaps. We find systems where the difference between the gas-liquid and confined-deconfined phase transition temperatures is small. This explains the experimentally observed liquid behavior of the quark-gluon plasma above the confined-deconfined transition temperature.

keywords

  • color deconfinement; percolation; percolation phase transition; phase transitions; quark-gluon plasma; structural phase transition; transition temperature; techniques; monte carlo methods