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We specify a tractable transport model with thermodynamic properties close to those expected for the strongly interacting matter. In particular, at high temperatures, the matter undergoes a phase transition, such as to the quark-gluon plasma, with a drop in masses of elementary excitations and a rapid increase in the number of degrees of freedom. We show that a softening of the equation of state such as associated with the transition to quark-gluon plasma should be observable in the elliptic-flow excitation function from heavy-ion reactions.
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Danielewicz, P., Gossiaux, PB., Lacey, R.A. (1999). Hadronic Transport Model with A Phase Transition. In: Blaizot, JP., Campi, X., Ploszajczak, M. (eds) Nuclear Matter in Different Phases and Transitions. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 95. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4556-5_6
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