Some Like It Hot: Probing the Early Universe With Relativistic Heavy Ions

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Apr 1998

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American Physical Society, APS/AAPT Joint April Meeting, April 18-21, 1998 Columbus, Ohio, abstract #O2.01

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Nuclear matter can be compressed and excited to extremely high energy density in relativistic collisions between heavy nuclei. Under these conditions, resembling those that existed in the first 20 μs of our universe, a phase change from ordinary nuclear matter (protons and neutrons) to a deconfined state of hadronic matter (quark-gluon plasma) is expected. This talk will review our current microscopic picture of nuclear collisions at high energy and the experimental signatures for the transition to a quark-gluon plasma. Future experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider will probe this transition more carefully, but already present studies at CERN and Brookhaven indicate modifications in the structure of hadronic matter at high density.

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