Non-equilibrium Phase Transitions in Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

Abstract

Highly excited nuclear matter created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions possibly reaches the phase of quark deconfinement. It quickly cools down and hadronises. We explain that the process of hadronisation may likely be connected with disintegration into fragments. Observable signals of such a scenario are proposed.

proceedings of 16 Conference of Slovak Physicists, Zilina, Sept. 2007, 2 pages