Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 2003
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American Physical Society, The 70th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section, November 6-8, 2003, Wilmington, North Carolina,
Physics
Scientific paper
Hadronic matter - matter susceptible to the strong interaction force - is described by quantum-chromo-dynamics (QCD). The basic constituents of QCD are quarks which interact through the exchange of gluons. It is believed that shortly after the creation of the universe in the Big Bang all matter was in a state called the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). Due to the rapid expansion of the Universe, this plasma went through a phase transition to form hadrons - most importantly nucleons - which constitute the building blocks of (nuclear) matter as we know it today. The investigation of QGP properties will yield important novel insights into the development of the early universe and the behaviour of QCD under extreme conditions. It is hoped to recreate this highly excited state of primordial matter under controlled laboratory conditions using relativistic heavy ion collisions, e.g. at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In my talk I will review the current status of QGP research and discuss the latest results from experiments at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider and their implications.
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