Strongly interacting low-viscosity matter created in relativistic nuclear collisions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Csernai, Laszlo P ^a,b   Kapusta, Joseph I ^c   McLerran, Larry D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d RIKEN BNL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOMENTUM DISTRIBUTIONS; RELATIVISTIC HEAVY ION COLLIDER; RELATIVISTIC NUCLEAR COLLISIONS; SINGLE PARTICLE TRANSVERSE;

COLLIDING BEAM ACCELERATORS; CORRELATION METHODS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FLUID DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; VISCOSITY;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 33749988041     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.152303     Document Type: Article

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