TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pisarski, Robert D.
T1  - Chasing the Unicorn: RHIC and the QGP
T2  - Brazilian journal of physics
N2  - At nonzero temperature, it is expected that QCD undergoes a phase transition to a deconfined, chirally symmetric phase, the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). I review what we expect theoretically about this possible transition, and what we have learned from heavy ion experiments at RHIC. I argue that while there are unambiguous signals for qualitatively new behavior at RHIC, versus experiments at lower energies, that in detail, no simple theoretical model can explain all salient features of the data.
KW  - QCD
KW  - Quarks
KW  - Gluons
KW  - RHIC
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/26972
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-269725
SN  - 0103-9733
SN  - 1678-4448
N1  - SPECIAL ISSUE: XXV BRAZILIAN NATIONAL MEETING ON PARTICLES AND FIELDS
N1  - All the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
VL  - 36
IS  - 1b
SP  - 122
EP  - 131
PB  - Springer New York
CY  - New York, NY
ER  -