Theory Group Seminars

Hadronization, chemical equilibrium and the QCD phase transition

by Francesco Becattini (Firenze U.)

Europe/Rome
Description
In this seminar I will address the relation between hadroproduction in relativistic nuclear collisions and the phase transition between hadronic matter and quark-gluon-plasma predicted by QCD. After summarizing the main concepts, I will present recent results which indicate that plasma hadronization occurs just at the critical temperature estimated by QCD lattice computations.