Has the QCD critical point been signaled by observations at the BNL relativistic heavy ion collider?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Lacey, Roy A ^a   Ajitanand, N N ^a   Alexander, J M ^a   Chung, P ^a   Holzmann, W G ^a   Issah, M ^a   Taranenko, A ^a   Danielewicz, P ^b   Stöcker, Horst ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLIDING BEAM ACCELERATORS; ENTROPY; THERMODYNAMICS; VISCOSITY;

ENTROPY RATIO; RELATIVISTIC HEAVY ION COLLIDER; THERMODYNAMIC TRAJECTORIES;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 33847626050     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.092301     Document Type: Article

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