Hard probes of the quark-gluon plasma
Relativistic heavy ion collisions aim to study the quark-gluon plasma, a hot and dense state of matter in which quarks and gluons, which are the elementary constituents of nuclei, are set free from the forces that normally confine them. Because of the very short lifetime of the produced pla...
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McGill University
2009
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