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Quark-gluon plasma; quark-hadron phase transition; nucleation rate.

The nucleation rate of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) droplet is computed at finite quark chemical potential. In the course of computing the nucleation rate, the finite size effects of the QGP droplet are taken into account. We consider the phenomenological flow parameter of quarks and gluons, which is dependent on quark chemical potential and we calculate the nucleation rate of the QGP droplet with this parameter. While calculating the nucleation rate, we find that for low values of quark phenomenological parameter $\gamma q$, nucleation rate is negligible and when $\gamma_q$ increases, nucleation rate increases significantly.

D S Gosain¹ S Somorendro Singh¹ Agam K Jha²

1. Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007, India
2. Department of Physics, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007, India

Published

May 2012

Manuscript received

14 January 2011

Manuscript revised

14 September 2011

Accepted

23 December 2011