Published November 1, 1984 | Version v1
Journal article

Are antibaryons a signal for a phase transition in ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309

Description

In this paper it is speculated that antibaryon production in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions is a signal for phase transition from a high-temperature Debye-screened and chirally symmetric phase to a low-temperature confined and chirally broken phase. In a chiral model for the transition where baryons are topological excitations the production of baryons and antibaryons takes place by the Kibble mechanism. A qualitative discussion of possible experimental signatures is given

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev., D
Journal Volume
30
Journal Issue
9
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
2001-2004
ISSN
0556-2821