Impact of Localization in Early-Universe QCD Phase Transition
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| author | Aban, Janus Capellan Alforja, Edmayelle Villavicencio Otero, Vincent Gene L. |
| author_facet | Aban, Janus Capellan Alforja, Edmayelle Villavicencio Otero, Vincent Gene L. |
| contents | We introduce a phenomenological modification of the MIT bag model equation of state that incorporates quark localization arising from gluon-induced disorder in the quark-gluon plasma. This model effectively reduces the quark degrees of freedom encoded in the product of the disorder activation function $G(W)$ and the localization efficiency factor $H(T)$. As a result, the critical temperature is increased roughly by 7%. Employing the Friedmann equation, we find that the onset of the phase transition occurs earlier. Consequently, the mixed phase duration is only $8.22\, μs$, which is 24% shorter than the bag model, and the hadronic phase cools faster. The Stephan-Boltzmann constant is reached at much higher temperatures, causing the energy density and pressure curves of the bag model to shift downward and yielding better agreement with the lattice QCD data from the HotQCD collaboration. Our results show that the localization of quarks plays a significant role in the cooling dynamics of the early universe. |
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| spellingShingle | Impact of Localization in Early-Universe QCD Phase Transition Aban, Janus Capellan Alforja, Edmayelle Villavicencio Otero, Vincent Gene L. High Energy Physics - Phenomenology We introduce a phenomenological modification of the MIT bag model equation of state that incorporates quark localization arising from gluon-induced disorder in the quark-gluon plasma. This model effectively reduces the quark degrees of freedom encoded in the product of the disorder activation function $G(W)$ and the localization efficiency factor $H(T)$. As a result, the critical temperature is increased roughly by 7%. Employing the Friedmann equation, we find that the onset of the phase transition occurs earlier. Consequently, the mixed phase duration is only $8.22\, μs$, which is 24% shorter than the bag model, and the hadronic phase cools faster. The Stephan-Boltzmann constant is reached at much higher temperatures, causing the energy density and pressure curves of the bag model to shift downward and yielding better agreement with the lattice QCD data from the HotQCD collaboration. Our results show that the localization of quarks plays a significant role in the cooling dynamics of the early universe. |
| title | Impact of Localization in Early-Universe QCD Phase Transition |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00465 |