The quest for the quark-gluon plasma

Nature

Volumn 448, Issue 7151, 2007, Pages 302-309

  Braun Munzinger, Peter ^a   Stachel, Johanna ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PLASMA; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

COSMOS; GLUON; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYPERBARISM; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUARK; REVIEW; SYNCHROTRON; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34447520278     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06080     Document Type: Review

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