Non-perturbative effects in a rapidly expanding quark-gluon plasma
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Within first-order phase transitions, we investigate the pre-transitional effects due to the nonperturbative, large-amplitude thermal fluctuations which can promote phase mixing before the critical temperature is reached from above. In contrast with the cosmological quark-hadron transition, we find that the rapid cooling typical of the RHIC and LHC experiments and the fact that the quark-gluon plasma is chemically unsaturated suppress the role of non-perturbative effects at current collider energies. Significant supercooling is possible in a (nearly) homogeneous state of quark gluon plasma.
LaTeX, 7 pages with 7 Postscript figures. Figures added, discussions added. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. C
LaTeX, 7 pages with 7 Postscript figures. Figures added, discussions added. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. C