Chasing the Unicorn: RHIC and the QGP
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.
| Author: | Robert D. Pisarski |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-269725 |
| DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-97332006000200004 |
| ISSN: | 0103-9733 |
| ISSN: | 1678-4448 |
| Parent Title (English): | Brazilian journal of physics |
| Publisher: | Springer New York |
| Place of publication: | New York, NY |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2006 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| Tag: | Gluons; QCD; Quarks; RHIC |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 1b |
| Pagenumber: | 10 |
| First Page: | 122 |
| Last Page: | 131 |
| Institutes: | Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 530 Physik |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Note: | SPECIAL ISSUE: XXV BRAZILIAN NATIONAL MEETING ON PARTICLES AND FIELDS |
| Note: | 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/ |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 |
