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The Search for the Quark-gluon Plasma

Year: 1996

Type: review

Abstract: ▪ Abstract We provide an overview of the present understanding of the transition from hadrons to a quark-gluon plasma, its signatures, and the experimental results so far. We discuss results of numerical simulations of the lattice gauge theory and critically evaluate the various observables that have been proposed as signatures of the QCD phase transition. We place the existing data from relativistic heavy-ion experiments at the Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) and CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) into perspective and provide an overview of the techniques and strategies that will be employed in the search for the quark-gluon plasma at heavy-ion colliders, such as the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Source: Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science

DOI: 10.1146/annurev.nucl.46.1.71

Authors: John W. Harris, Berndt Müller

Institutions: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, Duke University

Language: English

Topic: High-Energy Particle Collisions Research

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: U.S. Department of Energy, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Nuclear Physics

Awards: G1643223109, G193590374