From strangeness enhancement to quark–gluon plasma discovery

2017/08/27 by Peter Koch, Berndt Müller, Johann Rafelski · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle identification #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Plasma #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quark–gluon plasma #Strangeness #Strangeness production #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217751x17300241

published as International Journal of Modern Physics A Vol. 32 (2017) 1730024 (28 pages) · 30 pages, about 20 figures; Dedicated to our mentor Walter Greiner; to be published in the memorial volume edited by Peter O. Hess

arxiv created 2017/08/27 · openalex created_date 2017/09/15 · arxiv updated 2017/11/01 · openalex publication_date 2017/11/02 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

This is a short survey of signatures and characteristics of the quark–gluon plasma in the light of experimental results that have been obtained over the past three decades. In particular, we present an in-depth discussion of the strangeness observable, including a chronology of the experimental effort to detect QGP at CERN-SPS, BNL-RHIC, and CERN-LHC.

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