Entropy Production During Hadronization of a Quark-Gluon Plasma

Abstract

We revisit the physical pictures for the hadronization of quark-gluon plasma, concentrating on the problem of entropy production during processes where the number of degrees of freedom is seemingly reduced due to color confinement. Based on observations on Regge trajectories we propose not having an infinite tower of hadronic resonances. We discuss possible entropy production mechanisms far from equilibrium in terms of stochastic dynamics.

Submitted to EPJ A Topical Issue on "Frontiers in nuclear, heavy ion and strong field physics", in memoriam Walter Greiner

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