EVAPORATION OF QUARK DROPS DURING THE COSMOLOGICAL Q-H TRANSITION

Abstract

We have carried out a study of the hydrodynamics of disconnected quark regions during the final stages of the cosmological quark-hadron transition. A set of relativistic Lagrangian equations is presented for following the evaporation of a single quark drop and results from the numerical solution of this are discussed. A self-similar solution is shown to exist and the formation of baryon number density inhomogeneities at the end of the drop contraction is discussed.

Comments: 12 pages Phys. Rev. format, uuencoded postscript file including 12 figures