The Quark-Gluon-Plasma Liquid
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v2 Nuclear Theory
Plasma Physics
Abstract
The quark-gluon plasma close to the critical temperature is a strongly interacting system. Using strongly coupled, classical, non-relativistic plasmas as an analogy, we argue that the quark-gluon plasma is in the liquid phase. This allows to understand experimental observations in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions and to interpret lattice QCD results. It also supports the indications of the presence of a strongly coupled QGP in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0409213,
title = {The Quark-Gluon-Plasma Liquid},
author = {Markus H. Thoma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0409213},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages, 2 figures, final version, to bepublished in J. Phys. G