Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1839052 Nuclear Physics A 2009 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

Lattice QCD predicts a phase transition between hadronic matter and a system of deconfined quarks and gluons (the Quark Gluon Plasma) at high energy densities. Our current understanding of this new state of matter will be discussed with two key results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).

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