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. PisarskiORCiD |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-269725 |
| DOI: | https://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: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2012 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2006 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2012/11/02 |
| Tag: | Gluons; QCD; Quarks; RHIC |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 1b |
| Page Number: | 10 |
| First Page: | 122 |
| Last Page: | 131 |
| 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/ |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 432979751 |
| Institutes: | Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 |
