The exploration of hot nuclear matter

Science

Volumn 337, Issue 6092, 2012, Pages 310-314

  Jacak, Barbara V ^a   Müller, Berndt ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PLASMA; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ATOM; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FERMION; GLUON; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIGHT; LIQUID; LUMINANCE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR PROBE; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR MATTER; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLASMA; POLARIZATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUARK; REVIEW; SCIENTIST;

EID: 84864006280     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1215901     Document Type: Review

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