TY  - INPR
A1  - Zschiesche, Detlef
A1  - Bass, Steffen A.
A1  - Bleicher, Marcus
A1  - Brachmann, Jörg
A1  - Gerland, Lars
A1  - Paech, Kerstin
A1  - Scherer, Stefan
A1  - Soff, Sven
A1  - Spieles, Christian
A1  - Weber, Henning
A1  - Stöcker, Horst
A1  - Greiner, Walter
T1  - Current status of quark gluon plasma signals
N2  - Compelling evidence for the creation of a new form of matter has been claimed to be found in Pb+Pb collisions at SPS. We discuss the uniqueness of often proposed experimental signatures for quark matter formation in relativistic heavy ion collisions. It is demonstrated that so far none of the proposed signals like J/psi meson production/suppression, strangeness enhancement, dileptons, and directed flow unambigiously show that a phase of deconfined matter has been formed in SPS Pb+Pb collisions. We emphasize the need for systematic future measurements to search for simultaneous irregularities in the excitation functions of several observables in order to come close to pinning the properties of hot, dense QCD matter from data.
KW  - QGP signals
KW  - strangeness
KW  - J/ϕ
KW  - particle ratios
KW  - flow
KW  - dileptons
Y1  - 2001
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4784
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-7179
SN  - 1588-2675
SN  - 1219-7580
N1  - Preprint, erschienen in: Heavy ion physics, 14.2001, Nr. 1-4, S. 425–438, doi:10.1556/APH.14.2001.1-4.40
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
ER  -