Entropy production in the early-cosmology pionic phase

We point out that in the early universe, for temperatures in the approximate interval 150–80 MeV (after the quark–gluon plasma), pions carried a large share of the entropy and supported the largest inhomogeneities. Its thermal conductivity (previously calculated) allows the characterization of entro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Dobado, Antonio, Llanes Estrada, Felipe J., Rodríguez Fernández, David
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI)
Repositorio:RUO. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Oviedo
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:digibuo.uniovi.es:10651/39343
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10651/39343
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Entropy production
Particle cosmology
Pion gas
Hadron and lepton era
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Sumario:We point out that in the early universe, for temperatures in the approximate interval 150–80 MeV (after the quark–gluon plasma), pions carried a large share of the entropy and supported the largest inhomogeneities. Its thermal conductivity (previously calculated) allows the characterization of entropy production due to equilibration (damping) of thermal fluctuations. Simple model distributions of thermal fluctuations are considered and the associated entropy production evaluated