title: Sudden hadronization in relativistic nuclear collisions
abstract: We formulate and study a mechanical instability criterion for sudden hadronization of dense matter fireballs formed in 158A GeV Pb-Pb collisions. Considering properties of quark-gluon matter and hadron gas we obtain the phase boundary between these two phases and demonstrate that the required deep quark-gluon-plasma supercooling prior to sudden hadronization has occurred.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rafelski
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Letessier