TY - CONF A1 - Torres-Rincon, Juan M. A1 - Aichelin, Jörg A1 - Petersen, Hannah A1 - Rose, Jean-Bernard A1 - Tindall, Joseph T1 - Melting and freeze-out conditions of hadrons in a thermal medium T2 - EPJ Web of Conferences N2 - We describe two independent frameworks which provide unambiguous determinations of the deconfinement and the decoupling conditions of a relativistic gas at finite temperature. First, we use the Polyakov-Nambu-Jona–Lasinio model to compute meson and baryon masses at finite temperature and determine their melting temperature as a function of their strangeness content. Second, we analyze a simple expanding gas within a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric, which admits a well-defined decoupling mechanism. We examine the decoupling time as a function of the particle mass and cross section. We find evidences of an inherent dependence of the hadronization and freeze-out conditions on flavor, and on mass and cross section, respectively. Y1 - 2018 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50038 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-500383 SN - 2100-014X VL - 171 IS - Article Number 14007 PB - EDP Sciences CY - Les Ulis ER -