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Examining the crossover from the hadronic to partonic phase in QCD
Mingmei Xu1, Meiling Yu, Lianshou Liu
1Institute of Particle Physics, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China.
Abstract:
A mechanism, consistent with color confinement, for the transition between perturbative and physical vacua during the gradual crossover from the hadronic to partonic phase is proposed. The essence of this mechanism is the appearance and growing up of a kind of grape-shape perturbative vacuum inside the physical one. A percolation model based on simple dynamics for parton delocalization is constructed to exhibit this mechanism. The crossover from hadronic matter to sQGP (strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma) as well as the transition from sQGP to weakly coupled quark-gluon plasma with increasing temperature is successfully described by using this model.
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