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Probes of phase decomposition in high-energy nuclear collisions

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Acta Physica Hungarica Series A, Heavy Ion Physics

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High-energy nuclear collisions produce quark-gluon plasmas that expand and hadronize. If the associated phase transition is of first order then the hadronization should proceed through a spinodal phase separation. We explore here the possibility of identifying the associated clumping by analysis of suitable N-particle momentum correlations.

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Randrup, J. Probes of phase decomposition in high-energy nuclear collisions. Acta Phys. Hung. A 22, 69–82 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1556/APH.22.2005.1-2.8

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