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The Search for the QGP: A Critical Appraisal

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Over the past 15 years, an extensive program of high energy nuclear collisions at BNL and CERN has been devoted to the experimental search for the quark-gluon plasma predicted by QCD. The start of RHIC this year will increase the highest available collision energy by a factor 10. This seems a good time for a critical assessment: what have we learned so far and what can we hope to learn in the coming years?

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0009099,
  title  = {The Search for the QGP: A Critical Appraisal},
  author = {H. Satz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0009099},
  year   = {2009}
}

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20 pages, 20 figures