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Highly relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions: The central rapidity region

Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 1983 · Vol. 27(1) · pp. 140–151

James D. Bjorken✉(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

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Abstract

The space-time evolution of the hadronic matter produced in the central rapidity region in extreme relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions is described. We find, in agreement with previous studies, that quark-gluon plasma is produced at a temperature \ensuremath{\gtrsim}200-300 MeV, and that it should survive over a time scale \ensuremath{\gtrsim}5 fm/c. Our description relies on the existence of a flat central plateau and on the applicability of hydrodynamics.

High-Energy Particle Collisions Research Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions Black Holes and Theoretical PhysicsPhysicsRapidityNucleusHadronNuclear physicsQuark–gluon plasmaParticle physicsPlateau (mathematics)GluonPlasma

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Fermilab

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