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Title: Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions And The Quark-Gluon Plasma

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1118870· OSTI ID:1118870
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  1. Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)

The expected form of nuclear matter under extreme conditions of temperature or baryon density is a quark-gluon plasma. The basic physics of such a plasma and the transition from hadronic to deconfined matter are reviewed.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-98CH10886
OSTI ID:
1118870
Report Number(s):
BNL-101415-2013-IR
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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