New results on relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions and plans for their future studies

A comparative analysis of the results of the most recent experiments devoted to studying collisions of high-energy nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), and Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is performed. It is shown that, despite a significant amount of exp...

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Published in:Physics of atomic nuclei 2014-07, Vol.77 (7), p.924-929
Main Authors: Kurepin, A. B., Guber, F. F., Ivashkin, A. P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Collisions (Nuclear physics)
Elementary Particles and Fields
Nuclear physics
Particle and Nuclear Physics
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
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Summary:A comparative analysis of the results of the most recent experiments devoted to studying collisions of high-energy nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), and Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is performed. It is shown that, despite a significant amount of experimental data, conditions necessary for the phase transition from normal to quark-gluon matter have not yet been determined. New experiments planned for the near future that are intended to cover a broad interval of energies of colliding nuclei of different mass with the aim of studying phase transitions in nuclear matter are discussed.
ISSN:1063-7788
1562-692X
DOI:10.1134/S1063778814070102