Transition balance in QCD nucleation

TL;DR

This paper extends a QCD nucleation model by explicitly incorporating transition balance, analyzing it through microscopic kinetic models and testing it in a gluon-to-pion phase transition scenario.

Contribution

It introduces an explicit transition balance into the QCD nucleation model and implements it in a microscopic kinetic framework for the first time.

Findings

Successful implementation of transition balance in a kinetic parton cascade model

Testing of the model in a gluon to pion phase transition scenario

Insights into the microscopic dynamics of QCD nucleation processes

Abstract

As an extended and more complete version of the primary QCD nucleation model presented in Ref. [1], 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.