Quark Gluon Plasma an Color Glass Condensate at RHIC? The perspective from the BRAHMS experiment

2004/10/14 by I. Arsene · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #nucl-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2005.02.130

published as Nucl.Phys.A757:1-27,2005 · 32 pages, 18 figures

arxiv created 2004/10/14 · arxiv updated 2019/08/18

Abstract

We review the main results obtained by the BRAHMS collaboration on the properties of hot and dense hadronic and partonic matter produced in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC. A particular focus of this paper is to discuss to what extent the results collected so far by BRAHMS, and by the other three experiments at RHIC, can be taken as evidence for the formation of a state of deconfined partonic matter, the so called quark-gluon-plasma (QGP). We also discuss evidence for a possible precursor state to the QGP, i.e. the proposed Color Glass Condensate.

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