Cavitation effects on the confinement/deconfinement transition

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21364
ISSN: 0370-2693
E-ISSN: 1873-2445
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.05.047

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2014

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Cavitation is a process where the viscous terms in a relativistic fluid result in reducing the effective pres-sure, thus facilitating the nucleation of bubbles of a stable phase. The effect is particularly pronounced in the vicinity of a (weak) first-order phase transition. We use the holographic correspondence to study cavitation in a strongly coupled planar cascading gauge theory plasma close to the confinement/decon-finement phase transition. While in this particular model the shift of the deconfinement temperature due to cavitation does not exceed 5%, we speculate that cavitation might be important near the QCD critical point

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Buchel, A., Camanho, X. and Edelstein, J., 2014. Cavitation effects on the confinement/deconfinement transition. Physics Letters B, 734, 131-133

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A.B. is supported by the NSERC through Discovery Grant. A.B. thanks University of Santiago de Compostela for hospitality while this work was completed. Research at Perimeter Institute is supported through Industry Canada and by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Innovation. The work of X.O.C. and J.D.E. is supported in part by MICINN and FEDER (grant FPA2011-22594), by Xunta de Galicia (Consellería de Educación and grant PGIDIT10PXIB206075PR), and by the Spanish Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme CPAN (CSD2007-00042). X.O.C. thanks the Perimeter Institute for hospitality at the initial stages of this work. He is supported by a Spanish FPU fellowship and thankful to the Front of Galician-speaking Scientists for encouragement. The Centro de Estudios Científicos (CECs) is funded by the Chilean Government through the Centers of Excellence Base Financing Program of CONICYT

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© 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

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