Bubble-Bubble Interaction in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Abstract

We calculate the two-body interaction of spherical hadronic bubbles immersed in a gluon plasma at temperatures above the phase transition. Modeling the bubbles with the MIT bag we find that the two body potential is repulsive for all bubble-bubble distances considered. This implies that a static configuration of spherical hadronic bubbles in a gluon background is consistent with the bag model of QCD.

Comments: 18 pages, 4 figures appended as a ps file. Latex file. TAUP 2059-93