Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1854074 | Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics | 2009 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
We give a review on the HBT puzzle, and argue that its resolution requires the introduction of new physics close to the phase transition scale. We argue that a candidate for this new physics is bulk viscosity, recently postulated to peak, and even diverge, close to the phase transition temperature. We show that such a viscosity peak can force the system created in heavy ion collisions to become unstable, and filament into fragments whose size is weakly dependent on the global size of the system, thereby triggering freeze-out.
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Authors
Giorgio Torrieri, Igor Mishustin, Boris TomáÅ¡ik,