Baryon inhomogeneities in a charged quark gluon plasma

TL;DR

This paper investigates how charge imbalances in a quark-gluon plasma lead to baryon inhomogeneities, affecting hadron formation and potentially influencing nucleosynthesis.

Contribution

It introduces a model for baryon inhomogeneities caused by charge imbalances in quark-gluon plasma, highlighting their impact on hadron formation probabilities.

Findings

Overdensity differences for positively and negatively charged baryons.

Altered probabilities for neutron and proton formation.

Potential implications for inhomogeneous nucleosynthesis.

Abstract

We study the generation of baryon inhomogeneities in regions of the quark gluon plasma which have a charge imbalance. We find that the overdensity in the baryon lumps for positively charged particles is different from the overdensity due to the negatively charged particles. Since quarks are charged particles, the probability of forming neutrons or protons in the lumps would thus be changed. The probability of forming hadrons having quarks of the same charges would be enhanced. This might have interesting consequences for the inhomogeneous nucleosynthesis calculations.