Strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions

2014/12/31 by Edward Shuryak · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Condensed matter physics #Coupling (piping) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Large Hadron Collider #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Phonon #Photon #Physics #Plasma #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Quark–gluon plasma #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/revmodphys.89.035001

published as Rev. Mod. Phys. 89, 35001 (2017) · v2 is extended version, now intended for publication

arxiv created 2015/10/28 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex publication_date 2017/07/19 · arxiv updated 2017/07/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

The field of relativistic heavy ion collisions spans over five decades ranging from the formulation of scientific goals and early experiments at Berkeley in the 1960s with mostly lighter heavy ions via the start of operation of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven in the year 2000 up to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, where the first experiments took place in 2010. The data from the RHIC and LHC experiments and their theoretical explanations outlined in this review provide convincing evidence for the creation of a strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma, i.e., a nearly perfect fluid with large entropy density to viscosity ratio formed during collision.

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