Hunting down the quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Details Hunting down the quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy-ion collisions Hunting down the quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

1999-02-22

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9902424v3

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

20 pages LaTeX, including 8 postscript figures. To appear in the Proceedings of ``Strong and Electroweak Matter '98'' (Copenha

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The present status of the heavy-ion program to search for quark-gluon plasma is reviewed. The goal of this program is to recreate the Big Bang in the laboratory, by generating small chunks of exploding quark-gluon plasma (``The Little Bang''). I argue that the analogues of the three pillars of Big Bang Theory (Hubble flow, microwave background radiation, and primordial nucleosynthesis) have now been firmly established in heavy-ion collisions at SPS energies: there is convincing evidence for strong radial flow, thermal hadron emission, and primordial hadrosynthesis from a color-deconfined initial stage. Direct observation of the quark-gluon plasma phase via its electromagnetic radiation will be possible in planned collider experiments at higher energies.

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