Fast hadronization of a quark gluon plasma and meson production

Production of mesons from an equilibrated but rapidly hadronizing quark gluon plasma (QGP) is studied. The proposed model assumes the formation of hadrons such that the constituent quarks from the hadronizing QGP combine to form hadrons of given masses. The QGP is assumed to hadronize without undergoing through an equilibrated hadron gas (HG) phase. The results obtained are compared with the case of a pure HG without QGP formation.