Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Nuclear Theory
2009-10-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Central nuclear collisions at energies far above 1 GeV/nucleon may provide for conditions, where the transition from highly excited hadronic matter into quark matter or quark-gluon plasma can be probed. Here I review our current understanding of the physical properties of a quark-gluon plasma and review ideas about the nature of, and signals for, the deconfinement transition. I also give a detailed presentation of recent progress in the treatment of the formation of a thermalized state at the parton level.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9211010,
title = {Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma},
author = {Berndt Mueller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9211010},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
47 pages, 29 figures as separate uuencoded tar files, (format correction), DUKE-TH-92-36