The SPS Heavy Ion Programme: Aims, Results, Conclusions

by Helmut Satz (Universitaet Bielefeld, Germany, and Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal)

Thursday 18 Mar 2004, 16:30 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

Statistical QCD predicts with increasing temperature a transition from hadronic matter to a plasma of deconfined quarks and gluons. The SPS Heavy Ion Programme was initiated to study this transition and the resulting quark-gluon plasma. After summarizing the different probes for the collision evolution, I survey the experimental results obtained so far and assess what conclusions can be drawn.

Organiser(s): Rolf Landua / PH-EP Unit

Note: Tea & coffee will be served at 16:00 hrs.

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