What we have (not)learned from the ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Apartado Postal 70-543, Mexico Distrito Federal 04510 (Mexico)
The field of ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions is today a flourishing activity both on the experimental and on the theoretical side. Although the theoretical justifications to study these collisions was given already more than three decades ago and the experimental studies have a history of more than 25 years we are still very much in the dark as to the details of the processes and of the characteristics of the matter created in collisions. Increasing the energy of collisions has brought new insights but has also resulted with new challenges. In the present paper I will try from a personal perspective to report on the answers we have collected and on the problems we are faced with. The account is partial, taking into account that it is impossible to render justice to every aspect of the field.
- OSTI ID:
- 21300456
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1116, Issue 1; Conference: 13. Mexican school of particles and fields, Hermosillo (Mexico); San Carlos (Mexico), 2-11 Oct 2008; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3131543; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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