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 González, Antonio, Llanes Estrada, Felipe José, Rodríguez Fernández, David
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/18993
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18993
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:53
Entropy production
Pion gas
Particle cosmology
Hadron and lepton era
Física (Física)
22 Física
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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.