2000/09/08 by H. Satz · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ex #hep-lat #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0920-5632(01)00955-0
published as Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 94 (2001) 204-218 · 20 pages, 20 figures
arxiv created 2000/09/08 · openalex publication_date 2001/03/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Over the past 15 years, an extensive program of high energy nuclear collisions at BNL and CERN has been devoted to the experimental search for the quark-gluon plasma predicted by QCD. The start of RHIC this year will increase the highest available collision energy by a factor 10. This seems a good time for a critical assessment: what have we learned so far and what can we hope to learn in the coming years?