Can dissipation prevent explosive decomposition in high-energy heavy ion collisions?
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We discuss the role of dissipation in the explosive spinodal decomposition scenario of hadron production during the chiral transition after a high-energy heavy ion collision. We use a Langevin description inspired by microscopic nonequilibrium field theory results to perform real-time lattice simulations of the behavior of the chiral fields. We show that the effect of dissipation can be dramatic. Analytic results for the short-time dynamics are also presented. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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QCD phase transition, heavy-ion collisions, spinodal decomposition, dissipation in field theory
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Physics Letters B. Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V., v. 614, n. 3-4, p. 181-186, 2005.
