Maxima in strangeness observed in heavy ion collisions using statistical models
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2004
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University of Cape Town
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Nucleus-Nucleus collisions enable the heating and compression of nuclei in order to probe matter under extreme temperature and energy density. With a resonance gas mode, of hadronic matter, Hagedorn came to the conclusion that on increasing the energy density, hadronic matter could exist above a limiting temperature of appriximately 160 MeV. Above this temperature it is expected that hadronic matter undergoes a phase transition to a state of deconfined fundamental quarks and gluons known as quark gluon plasma (QGP).
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-50).
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Razak, N. 2004. Maxima in strangeness observed in heavy ion collisions using statistical models. University of Cape Town.