The SPS Heavy Ion Programme
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v3
Abstract
Statistical QCD predicts with increasing temperature a transition from hadronic matter to a plasma of deconfined quarks and gluons. The SPS Heavy Ion Programme was initiated to study this transition and the resulting quark-gluon plasma. After summarizing the different probes for the collision evolution, I survey the experimental results obtained so far and assess the conclusions that can be drawn.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0405051,
title = {The SPS Heavy Ion Programme},
author = {Helmut Satz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0405051},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
16 pages, 22 figures, 1 table; to appear in CERN 50th Anniversary issue of Physics Reports revised version: updated figures, small corrections