Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2008-05-29
Phys.Scripta 78:028005,2008
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
12 pages, including 2 Figs. Invited talk given at the "Maurice Jacob Memorial Meeting", CERN, 11 September 2007. To appear in
Scientific paper
10.1088/0031-8949/78/02/028005
Maurice Jacob played a key role in bringing together different groups from the experimental and theoretical nuclear and particle physics communities to initiate an ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collision program at the CERN SPS, in order to search for the quark-gluon plasma. I review the history of this program from its beginnings to the time when the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) started operation. I close by providing a glimpse of the important discoveries made at RHIC and giving an outlook towards heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). During Maurice's life and not least through his perpetually strong influence, relativistic heavy-ion physics has matured and led to discoveries that radiate into many other fields of physics. Heavy-ion physicists owe a great deal to Maurice Jacob.
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