Fluctuation probes of quark deconfinement

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2072-2075

  Asakawa, Masayuki ^a   Heinz, Ulrich ^b   Müller, Berndt ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CHARGE; HEAVY IONS; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMA PROBES;

BARYON NUMBER; HADNOIC MATTER; HADRON GAS; QUARK GLUON PLASMA (QGP);

PLASMA THEORY;

EID: 0034274803     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2072     Document Type: Article

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