TY  - INPR
A1  - Stock, Reinhard
T1  - The parton-hadron phase transition in central nuclear collisions at the CERN SPS
N2  - A selection of recent data referring to Pb+Pb collisions at the SPS CERN energy of 158 GeV per nucleon is presented which might describe the state of highly excited strongly interacting matter both above and below the deconfinement to hadronization (phase) transition predicted by lattice QCD. A tentative picture emerges in which a partonic state is indeed formed in central Pb+Pb collisions which hadronizes at about T = 185 MeV, and expands its volume more than tenfold, cooling to about 120 MeV before hadronic collisions cease. We suggest further that all SPS collisions, from central S+S onward, reach that partonic phase, the maximum energy density increasing with more massive collision systems.
KW  - scattering
KW  - heavy ion
KW  - lead
KW  - sulfur
KW  - critical phenomena
KW  - confinement
Y1  - 2005
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4025
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-14777
ER  -