Thermodynamics for a hadronic gas of fireballs with internal color structures and chiral fields
- Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, J. W. Goethe Universitaet, Max von Laue Strasse 1, D-60054 Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
The thermodynamic partition function for a gas of color-singlet bags consisting of fundamental and adjoint particles in both U(N{sub c}) and SU(N{sub c}) group representations is reviewed in detail. The constituent particle species are assumed to satisfy various thermodynamic statistics. The gas of bags is probed to study the phase transition for nuclear matter in extreme conditions. These bags are interpreted as the Hagedorn states, and they are the highly excited hadronic states produced below the phase transition point to the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The hadronic density of states has the Gross-Witten critical point and exhibits a third-order phase transition from a hadronic phase dominated by the discrete low-lying hadronic mass spectrum particles to another hadronic phase dominated by the continuous Hagedorn states. The Hagedorn threshold production is found just above the highest known experimental discrete low-lying hadronic mass spectrum. The subsequent Hagedorn phase undergoes a first-order deconfinement phase transition to an explosive QGP. The role of the chiral phase transition in the phases of the discrete low-lying mass spectrum and the continuous Hagedorn mass spectrum is also considered. It is found to be crucial in the phase transition diagram. Alternative scenarios are briefly discussed for the Hagedorn gas undergoing a higher order phase transition through multiple processes of internal color-flavor structure modification.
- OSTI ID:
- 21192231
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Vol. 78, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.78.034916; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2813
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Quark gluon bags as reggeons
Hadron Production in Heavy Ion Collisions