First Order Quark-Gluon/Hadron Transition May Affect Cosmological Nucleosynthesis

Abstract

In the model of a first order quark-gluon/hadron phase transition in which the hadronic phase is considered as vacuum bubbles growing in the quark-gluon background with chiral symmetry broken inside the bubble, we find the estimate for the length scale associated with inhomogeneities originated during the transition, $10$ m $\stackrel{<}{\sim }\ell \stackrel{<}{\sim }40$ m, being sufficient to produce significant effects on cosmological nucleosynthesis.

Comments: 10 pages, LaTeX, to appear in Phys. Lett. B, 1996