Exploring the quantum chromodynamics landscape with high-energy nuclear collisions

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mohanty, Bedangadas ^a  

^a VARIABLE ENERGY CYCLOTRON CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARYON NUMBER; BEAM ENERGIES; CHIRAL SYMMETRY; CRITICAL POINTS; ENERGY SCALE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FREEZE OUT; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; HIGH ENERGY; NUCLEAR COLLISIONS; QCD CALCULATIONS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; STRONGLY COUPLED PLASMA;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

PHASE DIAGRAMS;

EID: 79960411560     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/6/065031     Document Type: Review

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