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Quark–gluon plasma and color glass condensate at RHIC? The perspective from the BRAHMS experiment

Journal Article · · Nuclear Physics. A
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  1. Univ. of Bucharest (Romania); University of Kansas
  2. Univ. of Copenhagen (Denmark). The Niels Bohr Inst.
  3. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  4. Univ. of Bucharest (Romania)
  5. New York Univ. (NYU), NY (United States)
  6. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow (Poland)
  7. Univ. of Oslo (Norway)
  8. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
  9. Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (France). Institut de Recherches Subatomiques
  10. Univ. of Bergen (Norway)
  11. Jagiellonian Univ., Krakow (Poland)
  12. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (United States)
  13. Univ. of Copenhagen (Denmark). The Niels Bohr Inst.; Univ. of Oslo (Norway)
  14. Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
  15. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States); Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (United States)
  16. Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (United States)
  17. Univ. of Copenhagen (Denmark). The Niels Bohr Inst.; Univ. of Bucharest (Romania)
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Herein we review the main results obtained by the BRAHMS Collaboration on the properties of hot and dense hadronic and partonic matter produced in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC. A particular focus of this paper is to discuss to what extent the results collected so far by BRAHMS, and by the other three experiments at RHIC, can be taken as evidence for the formation of a state of deconfined partonic matter, the so-called quark–gluon plasma (QGP). We also discuss evidence for a possible precursor state to the QGP, i.e., the proposed color glass condensate.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (United States). Center for Research
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Contributing Organization:
BRAHMS Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-96ER40981; AC02-98CH10886; FG03-93ER40773; FG02-99ER41121
OSTI ID:
2325004
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 20732687
Journal Information:
Nuclear Physics. A, Journal Name: Nuclear Physics. A Journal Issue: 1-2 Vol. 757; ISSN 0375-9474
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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