Abstract
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) predicts that
hadronic matter at high temperatures and/or high densities
undergoes a phase transition to a system of deconfined
partonic matter, the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP)
[1]. Matter under such extreme conditions can be studied
in the laboratory by colliding nuclei at very high energies.
The Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at
Brookhaven National Laboratory has provided a variety
of collision systems at different beam energies, including
collisions of Au+Au, d+Au and p + p at √sNN = 200
GeV.
Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
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Pages (from-to) | 044906 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Physical Review. C, Nuclear physics |
Volume | 78 |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |