What thermodynamics tells us about the QCD plasma

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 4488-4491

  Asakawa, M ^a   Hatsuda, T ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

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EID: 0000638564     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.55.4488     Document Type: Article

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