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Transition balance in QCD nucleation

Tianzhe Zhou1,*, Qiuze Sun1, Jin Hu2, Carsten Greiner3, and Zhe Xu1,†

  • *Contact author: zhoutz22@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn
  • †Deceased.
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Phys. Rev. C 114, 014915 – Published 27 July, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/gg8v-z7pn

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As an extended and more complete version of the primary QCD nucleation model presented in [Phys. Rev. C 95, 024907 (2017)], the new model introduces explicitly the transition balance and formulates it in both macroscopic and microscopic descriptions. The microscopic description of the transition balance in QCD nucleation is implemented in a kinetic parton cascade model and tested for a first-order phase transition from gluons to pions in a one-dimensional expansion with Bjorken boost invariance.

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Phys. Rev. C 114, 014915– Published 27 July, 2026
  • Received 24 January 2025
  • Revised 3 November 2025
  • Accepted 13 March 2026
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