Liquid-gas phase transition in nuclear matter including strangeness
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2004
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Wang, P.
Leinweber, D.
Thomas, A.
Williams, A.
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Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics, 2004; 70(5):55204-1-55204-8
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P. Wang, D. B. Leinweber, A. W. Thomas, and A. G. Williams
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We apply the chiral SU(3) quark mean field model to study the properties of strange hadronic matter at finite temperature. The liquid-gas phase transition is studied as a function of the strangeness fraction. The pressure of the system cannot remain constant during the phase transition, since there are two independent conserved charges (baryon and strangeness number). In a range of temperatures around 15 MeV (precise values depending on the model used) the equation of state exhibits multiple bifurcates. The difference in the strangeness fraction fs between the liquid and gas phases is small when they coexist. The critical temperature of strange matter turns out to be a nontrivial function of the strangeness fraction.
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©2005 American Physical Society