Journal of Modern Physics

Volume 7, Issue 8 (April 2016)

ISSN Print: 2153-1196   ISSN Online: 2153-120X

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Arguing on Entropic and Enthalpic First-Order Phase Transitions in Strongly Interacting Matter

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DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2016.78077    2,466 Downloads   3,103 Views  Citations
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The pattern of isentropes in the vicinity of a first-order phase transition is proposed as a key for a sub-classification. While the confinement-deconfinement transition, conjectured to set in beyond a critical end point in the QCD phase diagram, is often related to an entropic transition and the apparently settled gas-liquid transition in nuclear matter is an enthalphic transition, the conceivable local isentropes w.r.t. “incoming” or “outgoing” serve as another useful guide for discussing possible implications, both in the presumed hydrodynamical expansion stage of heavy-ion collisions and the core-collapse of supernova explosions. Examples, such as the quark-meson model and two-phase models, are shown to distinguish concisely the different transitions.

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Wunderlich, F. , Yaresko, R. and Kämpfer, B. (2016) Arguing on Entropic and Enthalpic First-Order Phase Transitions in Strongly Interacting Matter. Journal of Modern Physics, 7, 852-862. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2016.78077.

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