TY - CONF A1 - Aichelin, Jörg A1 - Petersen, Hannah A1 - Vogel, Sascha A1 - Bleicher, Marcus T1 - How can we explore the onset of deconfinement by experiment? T2 - Proceedings of Science N2 - There is little doubt that Quantumchromodynamics (QCD) is the theory which describes strong interaction physics. Lattice gauge simulations of QCD predict that in the m,T plane there is a line where a transition from confined hadronic matter to deconfined quarks takes place. The transition is either a cross over (at low m) or of first order (at high m). It is the goal of the present and future heavy ion experiment at RHIC and FAIR to study this phase transition at different locations in the m,T plane and to explore the properties of the deconfined phase. It is the purpose of this contribution to discuss some of the observables which are considered as useful for this purpose. Y1 - 2007 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/7152 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-62039 UR - https://pos.sissa.it/047/004/pdf SN - 1824-8039 N1 - Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence. http://pos.sissa.it/ IS - (CPOD07)004 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - SISSA CY - Trieste ER -