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From Strangeness Enhancement to Quark-Gluon Plasma Discovery

Nuclear Theory 2017-11-01 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

This is a short survey of signatures and characteristics of the quark-gluon plasma in the light of experimental results that have been obtained over the past three decades. In particular, we present an in-depth discussion of the strangeness observable, including a chronology of the experimental effort to detect QGP at CERN-SPS, BNL-RHIC, and CERN-LHC.

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@article{arxiv.1708.08115,
  title  = {From Strangeness Enhancement to Quark-Gluon Plasma Discovery},
  author = {Peter Koch and Berndt Müller and Johann Rafelski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.08115},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

30 pages, about 20 figures; Dedicated to our mentor Walter Greiner; to be published in the memorial volume edited by Peter O. Hess