PRODUCTION OF FREE QUARKS IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE

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作者
WAGONER, RV
STEIGMAN, G
机构
[1] STANFORD UNIV,INST PLASMA RES,STANFORD,CA 94305
[2] STANFORD UNIV,STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CTR,STANFORD,CA 94305
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1979年 / 20卷 / 04期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.20.825
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
A model of the q-q interaction which avoids complete confinement is employed to calculate the number of free quarks which survive from the early universe. For a free-quark mass M10 GeV, our results are similar to those of previous calculations. But for M10 GeV, the number per nucleon is given by ln(qN)=ln(qN)=-MkT*+2ln(MkT*)+C, where the constant C20. Quarks of such mass freeze out of equilibrium during the quark-hadron transition at a temperature 0.2T*0.4 GeV/k, which for instance predicts 15M30 GeV if (q+q)N10-20. © 1979 The American Physical Society.
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页码:825 / 829
页数:5
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