Transition to Hot Quark Matter in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collision

1978
4 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 78 (1978) 552-555
  • Published: 1978

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The nuclear matter-quark matter phase transition density is calculated as a function of temperature. The result suggests a transition to quark matter in heavy-ion collision at laboratory kinetic energies of a few GeV per nucleon. The transition may be inferred by observing a limiting temperature for the hadrons produced by the collision.
  • SCATTERING: HEAVY ION
  • NUCLEUS: MATTER
  • QUARK: MATTER
  • MATTER: TRANSITION
  • MODEL: BAG
  • FIELD THEORY: MEAN-FIELD
  • THERMODYNAMICS: CRITICAL PHENOMENA
  • UP TO 4 GEV/NUCLEON